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Meanings of
drifting sand
in English
Sand drift.
sand drift
shifting sand
Synonyms
Examples for "
sand drift
"
sand drift
shifting sand
Examples for "
sand drift
"
1
A
sand
drift
a foot in length covered the well curb.
2
They were resting on a little
sand
drift
at the base of the rock that had caused the damage.
3
The banks at this point were all
sand
drift
;
we could not find a stone large enough to whet our knives.
4
Across the mesas, the silt dust and
sand
drift
still whirled in fitful gusts; but the air no longer carried the scorch of burning oil.
5
The woman bowed her head, like one imprisoned in a
sand
drift
,
not to be crossed in any direction, but closing in and weighing down.
1
Frantically she rose, four legs scrambling for purchase in the
shifting
sand
.
2
They pile it up in
shifting
sand
-
banks
about the mouth of the æstuary.
3
It shall be barren and stark, a place of rocks and
shifting
sand
!
4
Every one had warned him of the extreme peril from the
shifting
sand
-
dunes
.
5
Our little city was cradled amid the
shifting
sand
-hills
on Michigan's wave-beaten shore.
Usage of
drifting sand
in English
1
We could not go out for the
drifting
sand
,
without being thickly veiled.
2
The high cliffs extending from north to south are barriers against the
drifting
sand
.
3
And now the dead began to speak, their voices toneless as the
drifting
sand
.
4
Yet the débris of masonry may have been largely covered up by
drifting
sand
.
5
There came a whirlwind, thick with dust, the clay-dust, and
drifting
sand
and gravel.
6
The Navajo will find her if she is not as the grain of
drifting
sand
.
7
Our arms were thickly covered with the
drifting
sand
.
8
It was hardly a cave at all, just a hollow half choked by dry
drifting
sand
.
9
These so-called roads are, however, often mere caravan-tracks, sometimes totally hidden by
drifting
sand
or snow.
10
Last week snowploughs were used to clear roads of
drifting
sand
and soil blown from surrounding fields.
11
The wind blows a hurricane; the
drifting
sand
almost blinds us; and nowhere can we find shelter.
12
The plain, which consists of loose,
drifting
sand
,
with intervals of hard, stony ground, is called Kandari.
13
A few seconds later they were striding down a ramp kept clear of
drifting
sand
by electrostatic repellers.
14
Like the shape of the gully, clearly formed by
drifting
sand
and silt, piled up over many years.
15
About one eighth of the surface of the Sahara is said to be thus covered with
drifting
sand
.
16
Upon a knoll which the
drifting
sand
had not yet buried was a thin, wiry covering of grass.
Other examples for "drifting sand"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
This collocation consists of:
drifting
sand
drifting
drift
Verb
Noun
Drifting sand
through the time
Drifting sand
across language varieties
United Kingdom
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