sand pile
Example Sentences
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In addition to earlier dredging, crews have worked to move the stamp sand pile at the original deposit site back from the shoreline at Gay.
From Washington Times • Dec. 24, 2019
The approach, with roots in the 18th century, describes the structure of networks of discrete, interacting parts, be they friends linked on social media or grains in a sand pile.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2019
For example, assume a dry sand pile has an angle of repose of 30 degrees.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
“He and his roommate jumped off, 30 feet above the ground, and landed in a sand pile and lived,” James said.
From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2016
He went over and skinned the mother wolf, and with the pelts in a strong-smelling bundle, returned to the sand pile and filled his neckerchief as full as he could tie it.
From The Ranch at the Wolverine by Bower, B. M.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.