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The dancers pile atop one another and let the sand in their hands fall as if they are crumbling sculptures.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

Where possible, opt to walk on uneven surfaces, such as grass, sand or gravel, instead of pavement.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Sea, sand, spiked skyline, and mountains meet in one widescreen.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

One small group kicked a football near a police van as officers looked on, while others prayed on the sand.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

My thoughts felt sluggish, like someone had poured sand in my brain.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows

The Nazca Lines are a group of geoglyphs etched into the desert sands that date back to between 500 BC and 500 AD.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Markets are already expecting some asset sales, like borates and mineral sands, as well as some infrastructure deals, they add.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

Those trucks are starting to require regular maintenance, meaning Canada’s product support growth should exceed oil sands production growth of greater than 2%-4%, Goldman says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

The car, known as Babs, set a world record on the sands of Pendine 100 years ago with Welsh racing driver JG Parry-Thomas behind the wheel.

From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026

We flew higher and higher, over green valleys and dark, ridged mountains, and then over the coast, waves breaking on the white sands.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

That appeal could strengthen if Texas embeds tax restrictions in its constitution and guarantees that corporate investments won’t be sanded down by policy changes years later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025

In the rare event Moore does make a mistake — like the time he sanded through the veneer on a coffee table — “we have the capabilities to repair it after,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

Its throwing arm, currently at 12 o’clock, weighs 360 pounds and is not hewn or sanded; knots are visible in the wood.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2025

Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

It looked to me like somebody had cut the black Mary’s picture from a book, glued it onto a sanded piece of wood about two inches across, and varnished it.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

The pad of my left foot felt as if I’d stepped on a sanding belt.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

That might mean, for instance, sanding, patching and repainting interior doors instead of buying new ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025

Made with real Muscat grape juice, these gummies feature a jelly-like center and are coated in a decent amount of sour sanding.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2025

But for millions the latest content catnip is the simple sight of a man sanding wooden floors.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024

Papa emerged from the bathroom, where he was sanding down the walls in preparation for a new coat of paint.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser