SAND in a Sentence

Learn SAND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
140 example sentences for SAND, such as:
1. & Surgeon, gilt on black sand.
2. There is a mass of sand in the yard.
3. Miles of sand are exposed at low tide.
4. He was loping across the sand toward Nancy.
5. They didn't deliver the right amount of sand.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SAND
sand
 v.  rub with sandpaper
 n.  a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
Classic Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
1  They had evidently spent the night under the trees in someone's front yard, for a sand and gravel driveway stretched out before her, winding away under an avenue of cedars.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  If she could only be rid of her tight stays, the collar that choked her and the slippers still full of sand and gravel that blistered her feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  The inside of the store was almost like Bullard's store in Jonesboro, except that there were no loungers about the roaring red-hot stove, whittling and spitting streams of tobacco juice at the sand boxes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
4  & Surgeon, gilt on black sand.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  There is more sand there than you would use in twenty years as a substitute for blotting paper.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
6  Sometimes they are polished with soapstone and sand, till they shine within like silver punch-bowls.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
7  Before the mouths of the holes were little patches of sand and gravel, scratched up, we supposed, from a long way below the surface.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
8  Through January and February I went to the river with the Harlings on clear nights, and we skated up to the big island and made bonfires on the frozen sand.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
9  When I came upon the Marshalls' delivery horse, tied in the shade, the girls had already taken their baskets and gone down the east road which wound through the sand and scrub.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
10  I slid down into the soft sand beside her and asked her what was the matter.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
11  While she talked, I lay back in the hot sand and looked up at the blue sky between the flat bouquets of elder.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
12  You speak with about as little reflection as we might expect from one of those children down there playing in the sand.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
13  Edna looked at her feet, and noticed the sand and slime between her brown toes.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
14  He shoveled black sand into an iron receptacle and pounded it tight and set it aside to harden; then it would be taken out, and molten iron poured into it.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
15  Shove in the canoe nigher to the land, Uncas; this sand will take a stamp as easily as the butter of the Jarmans on the Mohawk.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  They didn't deliver the right amount of sand.
2  We beheld the beautiful sand beach before us.
3  He was loping across the sand toward Nancy.
4  There is a mass of sand in the yard.
5  Certain animals can feel vibrations in the sand.
6  It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.
7  They all walked barefoot across the damp sand to the water's edge.
8  You can enjoy a quick snack while your children cavort in the sand.
9  One day Robinson Crusoe espied a foot print on the sand.
10  They dig a small hole in the sand to bury their eggs.
11  The sand in the air reduced visibility to a hundred yards.
12  He lay on the beach, sifting the sand through his fingers.
13  Mother turtles burrow into the sand to lay their eggs.
14  Miles of sand are exposed at low tide.
15  Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.