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We found the footprints in the sand.
Glass is made from sand.
Tom filled his bucket with sand.
The wind drove the sand.
I was accused of stealing sand from a building site, which is not true. I didn't steal anything.
Dry sand absorbs water.
The bottle was filled with what looked like sand.
As far as the eye can reach, nothing is to be seen but sand.
There was nothing but sand as far as the eye could see.
Stop hiding your head in the sand.
The children are building sand castles on the beach.
Several children are playing in the sand.
The sand on the beach was white.
Your scheme is like a house built on the sand.
The truck dumped the sand on the ground.
As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but sand.
I'll show you how to separate gold from sand.
Desert sand cools off rapidly at night.
Salmon go up the river and lay their eggs in the sand.
We cannot walk on the hot sand with bare feet.
News and current affairs
The same story can be told about kala-azar, which is spread by the sand fly.
The Egyptians' tanks could still have counter-attacked, but they were engaged by an Israeli tank battalion that appeared from well behind the trench lines, having crossed supposedly impassable sand dunes.
The continuing misguided interventions in the Middle East by the United States and the United Kingdom have their roots deep in the Arabian sand.
Look closer at these claims, and you find that they are built on sand.
Putting one's head in the sand and pretending that everyone will benefit from globalization is foolish.
This began to change when China initiated an active policy of dredging sand to fill in reefs and build islands in at least five locations.
Increased sand drift was one of the effects noted during and after the first Gulf war.
Under the crust, the sand particles are loose.
Crushed by the bands and wheels of military vehicles, explosions of bombs and mines, and digging of trenches and walls, the desert's crust is broken and the fine sand particles beneath it are exposed to the wind.
But the consequences of the increased mobility of sand are likely to be far worse than they were in Kuwait, where in the absence of significant agriculture and forests, the impact was mainly on technical systems and infrastructure.
Drifting sand may frequently tip the balance to unsustainability, threatening the livelihoods of entire districts.
For a rare species of sea turtle this is bad news, as the eggs laid in the sand on those very beaches in the annual spawning season are due to hatch at precisely this time of the year.
Without such an effort, attempting to improve the situation is like building a house on a sand dune.
Yet without his constant attention, the road map will run into the Middle East sand dunes that have already buried so many well-intentioned peace plans.
Her stall is far from ideal; with every gust of wind, sand and dirt blow over the meat.
Yet not even this will suffice if we are to build on rock and not on sand.
But a clear line in the sand has been drawn between Latin American countries that want to pursue regional integration on their own terms, and those who see hemispheric integration as directed by the US.
This resulted in a three-phase emulsion of oil, gas, and water that also contained sand and dirt particles.
Before it is too late, countries in the developing world need to get their heads out of the sand.
Stabilizing the debt-to-GDP ratio is thus the line in the sand that must not be crossed.
Trade-distorting subsidies, high import tariffs, and export restrictions act as sand in the gears of the transmission belt and make it more difficult and expensive to bring food to the market - and thus to the family table.
Despite all the oil and gas below the desert sand, growth lagged and unemployment soared.
Yes, Dubai, with its man-made islands, hotels simulating Venice, and roof-top tennis courts, is a real-world castle in the sand.