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Sentences ending with sand

Bloomin' picnic for you when the Osnum Digners eat sand. [11]
She looked to where, not far away, Hylda stood leaning over the railing of the dahabieh, her eyes fixed in reverie on the farthest horizon line of the unpeopled, untravelled plain of sand. [11]
You can see what it is, boards and paint and sand. [4]
Every little pebble was distinct, every speckled trout, every hand's-breadth of sand. [5]
How the grim warriors of the past seem flocking in ghostly squadrons to their ancient battlefield again--how the wails of the dying well up from the--" At this point the horse called Oahu sat down in the sand. [5]
My eye fell upon the table, and there, as though prepared for what I was to do, lay pen and paper, ink and sand. [9]
Remember the crocodile under the sand! [10]
We settled down to within thirty foot of the land--that is, it was land if sand is land; for this wasn't anything but pure sand. [5]
Presently we came to a place where no grass grew--a wide expanse of deep sand. [5]
Age after age the world labors for these things with the busy absorption of a colony of ants in its castle of sand. [4]

Short sentences using sand

Swallowed the sand, may be. [5]
Strew sand on it! [10]
This sand is all gold. [4]
Just sand. [5]

Sentences containing sand two or more times

A sieve lets sand pass through it; a filter arrests sand, but lets fluids pass, glass holds fluids, but lets light through; wood shuts out light, but magnetic attraction goes through it as sand went through the sieve. [6]
Some of the people and animals was partly covered with sand, but most of them not, for the sand was thin there, and the bed was gravel and hard. [5]
All but the head used to be under the sand, for hundreds of years, maybe thousands, but they had just lately dug the sand away and found that little temple. [5]
San Francisco is built on sand hills, but they are prolific sand hills. [5]

More example sentences with the word sand in them

There was a wooden box of sand, sprinkled with cigar stubs and "old soldiers," and a stove with a door hanging by its upper hinge. [5]
There is a woman's footstep on the sand at the side of my deepest ocean-buried inscription! [6]
Tubs were filled with sand, for blood is slippery upon the boards. [9]
But a willow will grow in baked sand wet with rainwater. [6]
The narrow path which buried itself in the sand was becoming a thoroughfare leading upward. [10]
Then, from the wharves, I saw the bay dotted with islands, their white sand sparkling in the evening light, and fringed with strange trees, and beyond, of a deepening blue, the ocean. [9]
Off to the west from this point is the long sand line to Cape Henlopen, fourteen miles away, and the Delaware shore. [4]
These sandy cloudlets were instantly dissipated by the wind; it was the larger clouds that were lifted whole into the air, and the larger clouds of sand were becoming more and more the rule. [5]
All four horsemen were in the sand, plunging on towards us. [11]
When they were well exhausted, they would run out and sprawl on the dry, hot sand, and lie there and cover themselves up with it, and by and by break for the water again and go through the original performance once more. [5]
Her story was well enough, but it hadn't much sand in it; kind of-well, academic, you know. [8]
By the time we touched the brown-green prairie on the farther side the sand was rolling behind us. [11]
In due time we spread our blankets in the warm sand between two large boulders and soon feel asleep, careless of the procession of ants that passed in through rents in our clothing and explored our persons. [5]
The next day we crossed a ferry on the Ashley River, and rode down the sand of Charlestown neck. [9]
The board gives way as soon as you touch it; and before you have got by, the bag of sand comes round whack on the back of your neck. [6]
There's plenty of water and sand, and palmetto roots and palmetto trees, and swamps, and a perfectly wonderful vegetation of vines and plants and flowers. [4]
The well-scoured floor was strewn with sand and pine needles. [10]
Oh, we have wandered far, my dear, and we have loved apace; A little hut we built upon the sand, The sun without to lighten it, within, your golden face,-- O happy dream, O happy No Man's Land! [11]
The sand was very hot and white, and the waters of the Chesapeake rolled like oil under the July sun. [9]
Out upon the vast sea of sand, where the descending sun was spreading a note of incandescent colour, there floated the grateful words: "He remembering His mercy hath holpen His servant Israel; as He promised to our forefathers, Abraham, and his seed for ever. [11]
Presently they came up with them, and found them seated on a bench, looking off upon Brigantine Island, a low sand dune with some houses and a few trees against the sky, the most pleasing object in view. [4]
When Seth whirls up the sand, and a grain of it flies up his nose, he waxes angry--so it is Paaker's nose, and that only, which is answerable for all your blue bruises. [10]
Joe sat poking up the sand with a stick and looking very gloomy. [5]
When we woke up next morning we was feeling a little cheerfuller, and had had a most powerful good sleep, because sand is the comfortablest bed there is, and I don't see why people that can afford it don't have it more. [5]
He took a twig, and in the sand he wrote "Charles Rex. [11]
Two hundred and twenty yards; and so weightless a toy--a mouse on the end of a bit of wire, in effect; and not sailing through the accommodating air, but encountering grass and sand and stuff at every jump. [5]
Wherever the eye turned, there was nothing but sand and water, which united at the edge of the land. [10]
This was in truth a painful effort, for the sand crumbled away again and again under his feet, slipping down hill and carrying him with it, thus compelling him to find a new hold with hand and foot. [10]
Then, kneeling, he touched his turbaned head to the ground three times, and as the sun drew down behind the sharp, bright line of sand that marked the horizon, he prayed devoutly and long. [11]
Finally it occurred to them that their naked skin represented flesh-colored "tights" very fairly; so they drew a ring in the sand and had a circus--with three clowns in it, for none would yield this proudest post to his neighbor. [5]
Little Scherau tried to support her, but he was too weak; she sank down on the sand, and looked out into the distance. [10]
You don't mean to say that George Eliot, and Mrs. Gaskell, and George Sand, and Mrs. Browning, before her marriage and severe attack of spiritism, are less true to art than contemporary men novelists and poets. [4]
He was sent to prison for dipping his handkerchief in the blood of Sand, beheaded for liberty at Mannheim. [9]
Immigrants soon began to pour into the region of Adelaide and select town lots and farms in the sand and the mangrove swamps by the sea. [5]
The artist proposed to make a sketch of one of these primitive couples, but it was impossible to do so, because they lay in a trench which they had scooped in the sand two feet deep, and had hoisted an umbrella over their heads. [4]
Here he ventured to look below, expecting to see Carterette, but there was only the white sand, and no sound save the long wash of the gulf. [11]
When I got to camp I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw; but I says, this ain't no time to be fooling around. [5]
It really pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind in it to deceive the intelligent traveler. [5]
For a long time, Milo exerted all his strength to shake him oft, but in vain, and the sand of the Stadium was freely moistened by the great drops of sweat, the result of this Herculean struggle. [10]
You run full tilt at the board, but the board is on a pivot, with a bag of sand on an arm that balances it. [6]
How did they throw sand out from such a depth? [5]
The effect of these ribbons of alternate sand and water, of the lights and the ocean (or Great Bay) beyond, was exquisite. [4]
I will fling them into an abyss, and I will laugh when I see them writhing in the sand at my feet! [10]
Most lives, though their stream is loaded with sand and turbid with alluvial waste, drop a few golden grains of wisdom as they flow along. [6]
The number of their collected enemies was great, but Hermas had hopes of outstripping them, for his prisoner revealed to him the spot where their boats, drawn up on shore, lay hidden under sand and stones. [10]
They saw only the yellow sand, the ever-receding oasis, the brackish, undrinkable water, the withered and fruitless date- tree, handfuls of dourha for their food by day, and the keen, sharp night to chill their half-dead bodies in a half-waking sleep. [11]
Unconsciously she repeated the words to herself: "Builded upon sand! [9]
Far over in the western vista a long line of trees, twining through an oasis flanking the city, led out to a point where the desert abruptly raised its hills of yellow sand. [11]
To lie in the warm sand, which accommodates itself to any position of the body, and listen to the dash of the waves, is a dreamy and delightful way of spending a summer day. [4]
When we reached the top and got within the wall, we found simply a shallow, far-reaching basin, carpeted with ashes, and here and there a patch of fine sand. [5]
The shores of the stream were strewn with wrecks; there lay bleaching in the sand the ribs of many a once gallant craft. [4]
He ran up the steps before March, and opened the carpenter's temporary valve in the door frame, and led the way into a darkness smelling sweetly of unpainted wood-work and newly dried plaster; their feat slipped on shavings and grated on sand. [8]
In those days, the sea too often 'wrought and was tempestuous,' and weed, sand, shingle--all turned up in the tumult. [14]
The bottom of the sea on which they trod was firm, moist sand, on which even the herds could walk as if it were a smooth road, sloping gently toward the sea. [10]
The bare trees, the sand, the bricks and roofs of the houses, the green church spire, and the corners of the white house in the distance, all stood out in the transparent air in most delicate outline and with unnatural clearness. [2]
Do you see the sand, sea-weed, and shells yonder at the end of the estuary? [10]
Pierre stooped to the sand, and wrote two words with his finger. [11]
We slept in the sand close to the water's edge, between two protecting boulders, which took care of the stormy night-winds for us. [5]
I can see the place now the yellow fog, the sand piled up against the wall like yellow snow. [9]
Has he read the novels of Alexandre Dumas, Eugene Sue, George Sand, and Balzac? [5]
And under these the Meramec, crystal pure, ran lightly on sand and pebble to her bridal with that turbid tyrant, the Father of Waters. [9]
And what was the meaning of the sand, from which morning and day--which was probably the fresh enjoyment of the light--were to rise for Hermon? [10]
Cormorants dived under the long rollers that came crashing in from the Pacific; gulls wheeled and screamed in the soft wind; alert little birds darted here and there with incredible swiftness, leaving tiny footprints across the ribs and furrows of the wet sand. [9]
Dark spots on the light sand marked the places where others had thrown themselves on the ground, or, kneeling, stretched out their arms as if in defence. [10]
It swept across the isthmus in gusts, which followed one another more and more swiftly, driving before them dense clouds of yellow sand. [10]
The hoofs of the grey mare fell like the soft thud of a hammer in the sand, regular and precise. [11]
Both had seen the footprint in the sand. [13]
To provide against the flurried inquisition of his eye, I kept near me bread well chewed, with which I filled the hole, covering it with the sand I had rubbed or the ashes of my pipe. [11]
Away off on the edge of the sand, in a soft pinky light, we see three little sharp roofs like tents, and Tom says: "It's the pyramids of Egypt. [5]
The sand of the desert, Seti's breath and the tail of his yelek made the coat of Bashi-Bazouk like silk. [11]
The sand of the desert and the unfruitful waves of the Red Sea were the only witnesses of the deed; and no creature knows thereof beside thyself, O King, thy servant Prexaspes, and the gulls and cormorants, that hover over his grave. [10]
In answer to the congratulations and queries, he replied modestly that nobody else seemed to have had the sand to do it, so he did it himself. [9]
By eight of the clock we had crept into Kirkcudbright Bay and anchored off St. Mary's Isle, the tide running ebb, and leaving a wide brown belt of sand behind it. [9]
He said to the captain that if the fire would give him time to reach a sand bar, some distance away, all could be saved, but that to land against the bluff bank of the river would be to insure the loss of many lives. [5]
In five minutes the boat was level full, and we was setting on the lockers buried up to the chin in sand, and only our heads out and could hardly breathe. [5]
It was plain that we had to walk through the sand and shove that wagon and those horses two hundred miles. [5]
No one knew that the palms of his hands had been rubbed in the sand for a purpose. [11]
Let me repeat that it is my anxious prayer that you have not builded upon sand, that regrets may not come. [9]
Outside the little tavern there, after dinner, the green stage was drawn up; and Tom the driver cracked his long whip over the Morgan leaders and they started, swaying in the sand ruts and jolting over the great stones that cropped out of the road. [9]
It was the swan's first breasting the water,--bred on the desert sand, with vague dreams of lake and river, and strange longings as the mirage came and dissolved, and at length afloat upon the sparkling wave. [6]
They will raise surprising crops of vegetables on a sand pile. [5]
The Queen has sunk millions in the sand on the Syrian frontier of the Delta. [10]
From the infinite stretches of sand to the south came the irresistible call of life, as soft as the leaves in a garden of roses, as deep as the sea. [11]
The youth was still standing; his feet were on the sand of the arena; but he had a firm grip on the right-hand spiral ornament that terminated the bar round the chariot. [10]
It was the stern-wheeled tub Amenhotep, which churned her way up and down the Nile, scraping over sand banks, butting the shores with gaiety embarrassing--for it was the time of cholera, just before the annual rise of the Nile. [11]
He was a stern man, but not a cruel one, so he permitted his "moles" to lie down on the sand, for the troops would doubtless be a long time in passing. [10]
He took his stand by Charley, raised his great hand, smote him in the small of his back, and said: "By the Lord, you have sand, and I'll stand by you! [11]
She heard the snarl of the camels as they knelt down before her father's but to rest before the journey into the yellow plains of sand beyond. [11]
The water is smooth, and the stone has a good chance; so a strong man may make it travel fifty or seventy-five yards; but the weet-weet has no such good chance, for it strikes sand, grass, and earth in its course. [5]
There is a sloping, shallow beach, very broad, of fine, hard sand, excellent for driving or for walking, extending unbroken three miles down to Cape May Point, which has hotels and cottages of its own, and lifesaving and signal stations. [4]
Then pretty soon Sherburn sort of laughed; not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you feel like when you are eating bread that's got sand in it. [5]
The hope which she would not acknowledge, and the love which she strove to conceal from him seeped up between the words of her letter like water through grains of sand. [9]
The side path she had struck into ended at this plantation, and there was nothing to be done but to turn about, and to continue her walk against the wind and with the sand blowing in her face. [10]
They say they sell the lots by the bushel and count every sand. [4]
Ledscha did not seem to hear him, for while still clinging to the rope she looked sometimes at the sand at her feet, sometimes up to the full moon, which was now flooding both sky and earth with light. [10]
Below, puffs of sand were breaking out of the plain in every direction, as though the plain were alive with invisible horsemen. [5]
Moonlight, and the sand swishing from under the velvet hoofs of the camel, the silence like a filmy cloak, sleep everywhere, save at the eyes of the fugitive. [11]
True, sugar with sand in it, but sugar. [5]
Covered with desert sand and blood, and fighting and raging after the manner of a Sikh, he could hold ten companies together like a wall against a charge of Dervishes. [11]
But the airship rose higher as the sand was poured out, and so it seems to me I have felt myself getting above the mists and clouds whenever I have lightened myself of some portion of the mental ballast I have carried with me. [6]

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