sand drift

Example Sentences

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He was taking an eye surgeon to operate on patients facing blindness when his car got stuck in a sand drift.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2018

“This here’s called the ‘Jeep Dance,’ ” Mr. Yazzie said, dropping a gear to fishtail through a sand drift, then popping into third to launch us, with a shriek — “Woo-weeee!” — over a ravine.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2015

And as the sediment is dumped, plumes of silt and sand drift away, settling on other reefs and suffocating them.

From National Geographic

Now I was drinking sugary tea with Zalabia Bedouins and squatting on a sand drift in Wadi Rum, the Valley of the Moon, less than twenty miles from the Saudi Arabian border.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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.

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)