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Meanings of shifting sand in английском
Usage of shifting sand in английском
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
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United States of America
Common