sand pile
Example Sentences
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Forbes explains how so many vortices might all unpin at once: “Like dropping sand onto a sand pile — nothing really happens until … you get a whole avalanche.”
From Scientific American • Jul. 18, 2023
A sand pile or wall to hold back the rocks, meanwhile, would have to be 230 feet high to protect Brienz.
From Washington Times • May 12, 2023
By noon, only a third of the sand pile remained.
From Washington Post • Oct. 28, 2020
The approach, with roots in the 18th century, describes the structure of networks of discrete, interacting parts, be they friends linked on social media or grains in a sand pile.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 11, 2019
A barrel-organ played on certain days by the sand pile; and that music of the proletariat never fails to attract a crowd.
From From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Irvine, Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
