SAND in a Sentence

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For SAND, below is one of 140 sentences:
But over time, this ultra-thin cement paste on the top surface of the brick wears off, exposing the true color of the sand and gravel.

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 Meanings and Examples of SAND
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sand
 n.  mass of very fine fragments of rock
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1  They had evidently spent the night under the trees in someone's front yard, for a sand and gravel driveway stretched out before her, winding away under an avenue of cedars.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  If she could only be rid of her tight stays, the collar that choked her and the slippers still full of sand and gravel that blistered her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  The inside of the store was almost like Bullard's store in Jonesboro, except that there were no loungers about the roaring red-hot stove, whittling and spitting streams of tobacco juice at the sand boxes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  & Surgeon, gilt on black sand.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
6  Sometimes they are polished with soapstone and sand, till they shine within like silver punch-bowls.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
7  Before the mouths of the holes were little patches of sand and gravel, scratched up, we supposed, from a long way below the surface.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
8  Through January and February I went to the river with the Harlings on clear nights, and we skated up to the big island and made bonfires on the frozen sand.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
9  When I came upon the Marshalls' delivery horse, tied in the shade, the girls had already taken their baskets and gone down the east road which wound through the sand and scrub.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
10  I slid down into the soft sand beside her and asked her what was the matter.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
11  While she talked, I lay back in the hot sand and looked up at the blue sky between the flat bouquets of elder.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
12  You speak with about as little reflection as we might expect from one of those children down there playing in the sand.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
13  Edna looked at her feet, and noticed the sand and slime between her brown toes.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
14  He shoveled black sand into an iron receptacle and pounded it tight and set it aside to harden; then it would be taken out, and molten iron poured into it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
15  Shove in the canoe nigher to the land, Uncas; this sand will take a stamp as easily as the butter of the Jarmans on the Mohawk.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  Rosie's fingers traced a delicate pattern in the sand.
17  The lizard's light brown skin acts as camouflage in the desert sand.
18  He drew a circle in the sand with a stick.
19  Children learn a great deal by playing about with sand and water.
20  In what you might call a giant washing machine, agitation and heat begin to separate the bitumen from the sand.
21  But over time, this ultra-thin cement paste on the top surface of the brick wears off, exposing the true color of the sand and gravel.
22  Wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.
23  So much sand had built up at the bottom of the canal that the waterway was barely navigable.
24  You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see.
25  When they were well exhausted, they would run out and sprawl on the dry, hot sand.
26  The workers mixed the asphalt with sand and gravel together for paving or roofing.
27  His exaltation had but one alloy, and that record in sand was fast washing out, under the waves of happiness that were sweeping over it now.
28  He began to gouge a small pattern in the sand with his cane.
29  His exaltation had but one alloy -- the memory of his humiliation in this angel's garden -- and that record in sand was fast washing out, under the waves of happiness that were sweeping over it now.
30  Finally it occurred to them that their naked skin represented flesh-colored "tights" very fairly; so they drew a ring in the sand and had a circus -- with three clowns in it, for none would yield this proudest post to his neighbor.