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
Ethan flips his sandy blond hair out of his eyes and passes the stapled pages to me.
From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day
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
He is older, homelier, sandier than when we saw him last, and he has gambled much.
From The Long Chance by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne
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
Soil and location: Grows in the poorest and sandiest soils where few other trees will grow.
From Studies of Trees by Jacob Joshua Levison
One man who owned some of the sandiest land had a road through his pasture so people could cut through and save many miles.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Clarence Edgar Johnson
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