sandy
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Possibly singed and mostly sandy, they storm the Mediterranean and return to their grills wet, steaming, and triumphant.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
He associates sandy, earthy music with African and Latin genres, like the samba he recorded in São Paulo for “The Garden.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
It is a popular area with British families for its sandy beaches, and Villa Francisca, a two-bedroom villa, is described on booking websites as "an ideal choice for a family holiday in the sun".
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
But in Crimea, residents and tourists drawn to its sandy beaches are now enduring the conflict’s costs firsthand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
I move forward, smoothly gliding over the sandy red ground.
From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga
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
Cal could hardly have guessed how many sultry miles he travelled before he came suddenly upon a wider, sandier path, bordered by taller bushes, that struck straight across the other.
From The Red Mustang by William O. Stoddard
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
"That feller thet jest went out is your brother's new foreman, Ken Douglass, the sandiest galoot an' best cowman on this range," he concluded.
From The Song of the Wolf by Frank Mayer
You are the pluckiest, sandiest girl I've ever known.
From The Hollow of Her Hand by George Barr McCutcheon
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