Meanings of powdery sand in English

Our feet padded on powdery sand, then rock-hard sand, and then into the surf.

Ishanti tried to dig herself out of the powdery sand that had betrayed her.

Round, saucer-type sleds work best on the powdery sand.

Jones and Frank came in a few minutes apart, each anathematizing the gritty, powdery sand.

He started to march over the powdery sand.

Beneath Orfantal, as he was set down, was dry, powdery sand, and he settled into it.

In between it all, the sparrows chattered and chirped and fluttered safely in the powdery sand of the playground.

They dug down into a parched and powdery sand-thevery dryest of all sand, indeed-therewas not one trace of moisture!

Alkad cut across the dunes at an angle, aiming for the middle of the beach, her feet leaving light imprints in the powdery sand.

The soil in many places consists of a fine powdery sand, covered with a saline efflorescence; and the general character of the country is desert.

If you get tired -or, heaven forbid, run out of cash -head out back to lie in the powdery sand of Cable Beach.

The "Raabjerg Miler" are vast and characteristic dunes of powdery sand in long ridges, like huge waves petrified in the very act of turning over!