sandy
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As the train arrived in San Clemente, passengers peered through the train windows to take in the crashing waves, sandy shoreline and beachgoers relaxing underneath umbrellas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Fine, silty material appeared at the bottom, while coarse, sandy sediment sat on top.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
In Pattaya, the sailors from the Lincoln continue a long tradition of U.S. servicemen seeking respite at the city’s wide sandy beach, restaurants and bars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Possibly singed and mostly sandy, they storm the Mediterranean and return to their grills wet, steaming, and triumphant.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
His sandy blond hair was drenched in sweat; it could not have been pleasant to stand on those steps for as long as he had with no promise of shade.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
Our plants grew well in this also, but on a sandier soil, where the water could not rise so high, it might happen that they would not.
From Lessons on Soil by E. J. Russell
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
The sight of this man was like the finding of an oasis at the point where the desert is sandiest, deadliest, most unbearable.
From The Masquerader by Katherine Cecil Thurston
Hubbardson will utilize the sandiest soil of any northern variety, preferring rich, fine, sandy loams.
From Apple Growing by M. C. Burritt
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