sand pile
Example Sentences
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Forbes explains how so many vortices might all unpin at once: “Like dropping sand onto a sand pile — nothing really happens until … you get a whole avalanche.”
From Scientific American • Jul. 18, 2023
By noon, only a third of the sand pile remained.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2020
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
So down to the sand pile he and his sister went.
From Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's by Hope, Laura Lee
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
