sand pile
Example Sentences
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A sand pile or wall to hold back the rocks, meanwhile, would have to be 230 feet high to protect Brienz.
From Washington Times • May 12, 2023
By noon, only a third of the sand pile remained.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2020
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
In a sand pile near the Pennsylvania Railroad depot a horse's hind feet, rump and tail are all that can be seen of him.
From The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin by Walker, James Herbert
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
