sand

I don’t blame him for wanting to draw a line in the sand.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026

The Civil Defence initially reported on Sunday that three children and two women were killed when the sand embankment collapsed.

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026

Although she has spent only a few hours in Mogadishu, she has already visited the sand dunes and taken in the Indian Ocean coastline.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

While many commissioners supported the idea, commission staff said the benchmark was too stringent to employ without understanding how the new sand placement will fare over the next few months or years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Ahead of them was a stretch of sand and a great rising of rocks.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Celmins, 88, is known for her meticulous re-creations of natural imagery, like night skies, desert sands and ocean waves — and stars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

As a large turtle lumbered across the island's sands on Wednesday, tourism operator Famau said his sector supports 90 percent of the island.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

Unlike the scrolls from Herculaneum, those documents survived because they were buried in Egypt's dry sands.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Suncor, whose operations span oil sands mining, offshore production, petroleum refining and the Petro Canada chain of gas stations across the country, said former Chief Financial Officer Little was no longer with the company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

“When I engulfed you, your heart spoke out and caused the sands around you to move and shift. This sand painting reveals your inner being. Now I can assess.”

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

When quizzed by the organisers, the miscreants confessed that they had sanded them into a better shape - and were duly disqualified.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The trio sanded the edges of Colleton’s original whimsy, borrowed some of the moderation discipline from the tables and gave the project a name: American Dialogues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Its throwing arm, currently at 12 o’clock, weighs 360 pounds and is not hewn or sanded; knots are visible in the wood.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

Tilda Swinton — “The Room Next Door” “Movies often put misanthropes on center stage, but usually the sharp edges of these curmudgeons are sanded down. Not so with Marianne Jean-Baptiste in Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 21, 2024

A couple of chairs, one of the tables I sanded and restained, a teapot with a broken handle I glued back together.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

The pad of my left foot felt as if I’d stepped on a sanding belt.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

That might mean, for instance, sanding, patching and repainting interior doors instead of buying new ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

Made with real Muscat grape juice, these gummies feature a jelly-like center and are coated in a decent amount of sour sanding.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2025

Wednesday's report revealed the driver was supposed to check the sanding system, but was unable to do so because the train was parked next to a platform.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025

I had spread out part of the Sunday Sun and was trimming the wood down before sanding it.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson