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Meanings of shifting sand 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
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.
Usage of shifting sand in English
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.
6
If we let it become shifting sand, we will blow away.
7
Dry mud gave way to a loose and shifting sand.
8
She could build up nothing on a character whose foundations were of shifting sand.
9
Except that the ground appeared to be like shifting sand.
10
Fled though his legs were heavy and his throat as dry as shifting sand.
11
Snow had stopped falling, but dry powder blew close to the ground like shifting sand.
12
But there was that misstep, not printed in shifting sand but upon the granite of recollection.
13
These wretches trampled each other into the shifting sand, and crowded many more into the morass.
14
Nothing but the shifting sand moved in Arafat-kaffiyeh.
15
Whose flimsy homes, built on the shifting sand
16
The dry, shifting sand, and the salt spray, are enough to kill them, you would think.
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Shifting sand through the time
Shifting sand across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common