sandy
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Elephant seals and sea lions bark and breed on its sandy coves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
"Around Dundrum and those kind of sandy soil areas would possibly be candidates," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Possibly singed and mostly sandy, they storm the Mediterranean and return to their grills wet, steaming, and triumphant.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
This time it was a demonstration by the state's emergency rescue service -- addressing the risks of drowning as Ukrainians take to sandy city beaches to cool off from surging temperatures.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Auster leaned forward, close enough so that Jason could smell rain-soaked fields and hot sandy beaches.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
In the drier, sandier areas of the western Kalahari Desert and Namibia, Khoisan speakers remained the dominant group until more recent times.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
Mr McCann says this huge number was necessary because "the same crop can look very different if it was planted in, say, sandier soil compared to soil that gets lots of rain and sun".
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2023
Muscovado sugar is similar to brown sugar but with a much stronger flavor and a damper, sandier texture...
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2022
Or the wines of the Marne Valley, where the sandier soils have their own softer expression.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2019
Two kinds of intonaco are used, one hard and white, the other grey and sandier.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
You reverse what you tried for going up and aim for the sandiest places in order to glissade down.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2014
The road was the sandiest and least traveled that he experienced.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2014
He smacked the ground face-first in the world’s sandiest belly flop.
From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn
The sight of this man was like the finding of an oasis at the point where the desert is sandiest, deadliest, most unbearable.
From The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston
"That feller thet jest went out is your brother's new foreman, Ken Douglass, the sandiest galoot an' best cowman on this range," he concluded.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
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