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Moving rapidly through dense pine forests, the blaze spread to the Cap-Ferret peninsula, a popular tourist destination on the Atlantic coast long favoured by wealthy French families and known for sand dunes and oyster shacks.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Motherwell were fined £5,000 for releasing a video with the caption: "As the world of football mocks our game, we simply have to draw a line in the sand and shift the focus."

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Over time, material such as pollen, sand, plant remains, and organic matter settles at the bottom of a lake, building a layered record of past environmental conditions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026

He sank the horse in sand past its haunches as a cinematic homage: “My inspiration was really the Statue of Liberty at the end of the original ‘Planet of the Apes,’ ” the director said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Nim got a book and read with her legs in the water and the rest of her on the sand.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

On the sands of Abersoch in Gwynedd, Beach Hut 7 is a timber and corrugated iron cabin, one of only 17 on the right-hand side of the stretch of coast.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

Australian miner Iluka Resources is also building a refinery in the country that will initially process stockpiled material from its mineral sands operations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026

The car, known as Babs, set a world record on the sands of Pendine 100 years ago with Welsh racing driver JG Parry-Thomas behind the wheel.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

The boy’s first real lesson in the shifting sands comes when, at dinner, he remarks that the war will soon be over, intending it as good news — Dad could come home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

“I’ve crossed these sands many times,” said one of the camel drivers one night.

From "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho

That appeal could strengthen if Texas embeds tax restrictions in its constitution and guarantees that corporate investments won’t be sanded down by policy changes years later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

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

Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

And I don’t think I truly understood how much they got sanded down in my own life until I worked on this show.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2024

It was the lanyard he’d made, tied to a little ball of beechwood that he’d rounded and sanded carefully.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman

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

But for millions the latest content catnip is the simple sight of a man sanding wooden floors.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024

He learned that sandstoning was even more monotonous than sanding the drill, and far more fatiguing.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw