sand

Tourism to the Philippines accounts for almost 10 percent of the country's GDP, mainly generated from people seeking sand, sea, surf and scuba diving.

For many Japanese visitors, Okinawa, with its white stretches of sand and tropical climate, makes for an ideal, no-fuss beach vacation.

Right-wing pastor and podcaster Joel Webbon’s reply was more blunt: “Go back home and worship your sand demons. Get out of my country.”

“If telephone poles sunk into the soil worked for 75 years, why do we need to build Hitler’s bunker under the sand?”

A simulated beach assault in which artillery was fired from the sand toward the interior of the sprawling base was intended to be a capstone demonstration of the capabilities of the Marine Corps.