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Meanings of sand drift in English
Synonyms
Examples for "drifting sand"
Examples for "drifting sand"
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.
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 sand drift in English
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.
6
There were simply thousands of the great sand drifts in every direction.
7
The team was driven into the security of the sand drifts and unhitched.
8
Then the sand drifts back again to the places already cleared.
9
There's never any trail here at all, the sand drifts so.
10
Twenty-four miles below Black Falls there was encampment, the road blocked by sand drifts.
11
The sand drifted like snow half-way up to its windows.
12
Sand drifts were ten feet high in some places.
13
And there was sand drifted all over the garden.
14
All along the coast ran a row of flying- sand drifts, with lyme-grass on their tops.
15
They made little pits in the moving sand ; and more sand drifted up and covered them.
16
Tell him that the sands drift very quickly.