sand
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When the other animals don’t heed her warnings, the mouse takes it upon herself to save her home, one grain of sand at a time.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Kristen Adam’s softly textured watercolors convey the dreamy quality of days spent on a beach, fine-grained sand underfoot and crisp blue waves hissing against the shore.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
The teenager claimed that her boyfriend had gone up alone to the sand dune where the trio were, but Turley was not there initially.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
She used a mallet to pound a metal tube into the rocky sand.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
He spoiled the effect by leaping into the water to haul the rowing boat onto the sand and misjudging the depth, disappearing up to his neck.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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