I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gravel/sand/chalk pit
sand bar
sand dune
sand fly
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
coarse
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It will grow well in plain aquarium coarse sand or fine gravel.
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In Breckland there is coarse sand which is very porous and poor for crops.
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Some clay with coarse sand or gravel can be provided in the tank.
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G Gravel rounded stone chips, coarser than sand .
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Therefore a mixture of clay or loam and coarse river sand is needed.
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Possible developments Sand Ideally, children should be offered regular experience of both wet and dry, coarse and silver sand .
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Cultivation: A layer of peat and gravel, or leaf-mould and coarse sand or loam should provide a good medium.
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However, if cracks do appear, you should try brushing a mixture of peat or compost and coarse sand into them.
damp
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Propagation is done by either dividing the rootstock with shoots or by planting seeds in a container of damp sand or loam.
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Quite suddenly we had driven into soft, damp sand , grey and treacherous.
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Seeing his brother walking away Benny followed hastily, rubbing off the damp sand from his hands on his shorts.
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They hibernate during the dry season by burrowing deep into the damp sand .
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Line the floor and sides with damp sand or newspaper.
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Hands and feet are used to print with paint or into clay or damp sand .
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I let my head fall to one side, my cheek against the cool damp sand .
dry
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Wet sand can be moulded, whilst dry sand is much more elusive.
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If you shake a beaker full of dry sand , the particles will settle and the material will become denser.
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The sand wheel can be used with wet or dry sand.
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The funnel-shaped pits are constructed in dry soil or sand using a novel excavation technique.
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Little grains of dry sand stuck to it, so I brushed them off.
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Do not try laying dry sand below the floor boards, without first having the floor inspected for strength and suitability.
fine
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Jagged irregular vibrations up the line suggest gravel and stones, small regular vibes mean fine gravel or sand .
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Moreover, the tower roof is sprinkled with fine sand to prevent anyone slipping.
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But when she arrived on the fine white sand of the cove the question was still there, unanswered and unanswerable.
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The pygmies were gone, and below the airship was a soft desert of fine , white sand .
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Try smearing the spanner jaws with light oil, then dipping them in fine sand .
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Likewise, further groupings such as percentage of coarse sand or of very fine sand may also be calculated.
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It was a mistake: the fine , white sand collapsed away from under his feet and made the going difficult.
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Marlstone high up on some north-facing slopes, with an isolated stratum of fine calcareous sand up to fifteen metres thick in places.
golden
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She was kneeling on a beach of golden sand .
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She forbade him to accompany her beyond the door and walked alone over the golden sand past the flower-beds to the gate.
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Le Sport is surrounded by tropical gardens on a secluded bay of golden sand .
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Swimming Swimming from Colwyn Bay's 3 miles of golden sand is safe and is ideal for families.
soft
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Mitjorn beach is home to a couple of hotels and hostels and is a long, lazy affair of white soft sand .
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After brownies and roasted marshmallows, star-gazing was superb and sleeping on the soft sand was a pleasure.
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Then they burrow deep into the still soft sand and excavate a small chamber.
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For a while he stood on the soft sand , watching the waves break and the sandpipers scatter under them.
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Quite suddenly we had driven into soft , damp sand , grey and treacherous.
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When she next looked inland, the terrain had changed to soft , silvery sand and rustling, bumpy dunes.
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Imagine that you can hear the waves gently lapping on to the soft sand .
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There is a pier, a busy soft sand beach and some beautiful public gardens.
wet
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For example, if you wanted the effect of wet sand when the tide is low.
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She had trodden them into the wet sand and they were horrible.
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The sand wheel can be used with wet or dry sand.
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We trekked across the wet sand towards Tony on the far bank ahead of us.
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Cutting stone was done with a rope dipped in wet sand and used like a saw.
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And it says come down on to the wet pale sand , Come down into the picture.
white
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Behind it the water looked tantalisingly calm with a gorgeous white sand beach fringed with coconut palms.
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I was allowed to play in a huge pile of white sand and to melt wire with a hot soldering gun.
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But when she arrived on the fine white sand of the cove the question was still there, unanswered and unanswerable.
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They set up a perimeter on the white sand , went swimming, dug in deep for the night.
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The pygmies were gone, and below the airship was a soft desert of fine, white sand .
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All-terrain-vehicle tracks cross the white sand in the bed of the North Fork of the Red.
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It has an enticing colour photograph of palm trees and white sand .
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Three rocks, a gnarled pine tree, raked white sand: awe.
■ NOUN
bar
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A sand bar was dredged, allowing the passenger and excursion steamers to make better use of the port.
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At least 20 others were run aground, driven into sand bars by huge waves and winds topping 100 miles per hour.
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The Kumbukan river rises with the first rains and breaks down the sand bar between itself and the sea.
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Moose and bear prints dotted the sand bars and bald eagles glared down at us from river-side perches.
beach
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Behind it the water looked tantalisingly calm with a gorgeous white sand beach fringed with coconut palms.
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The shoreline was black gravel, occasionally interrupted by a sand beach .
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Swimming is also available at the Lido, where there is a large sand beach , and at the swimming pool.
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Quickly rising in popularity due to its magnificent white sand beach , Kuantan is one of the east coast's finest resorts.
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There is a pier, a busy soft sand beach and some beautiful public gardens.
castle
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Finally, the teacher took a bucket and made a sand castle on top.
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The result: a piece as solid and dependable as a sand castle in high tide.
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Bathing is safe and children can have lots of fun, paddling and shrimping in the rock pools and making sand castles .
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After playgroup we drove to Sagaponack to swim, make sand castles and kick around a soccer ball.
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They overflow with art projects and dragon slayers, with fireflies and sand castles , with tents and mysterious bones.
dune
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It's found in lowland areas on chalk grassland and among sand dunes .
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There would be no more lying in the warm sand dunes .
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Participants will also visit the adjacent Oceano sand dunes wilderness area.
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There were sand dunes here, he remembered.
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We stand on a high sand dune and look out at the sea and the imposing gray sky.
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More than 80 of these include mudflats, sand dunes , salt marshes and shingle banks.
grain
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This new species lives below the surface of the rock in the interstices of its sand grains .
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Do we mean something like one sand grain every square metre of sea-floor per minute, per day, per year?
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In a turbulent flow of air near the surface local upward currents may lift a sand grain .
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The turbulence in the water film around the sand grains caused by your footfalls triggers the fluorescence.
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Specimens from unconsolidated gravels are not difficult to clean, any adherent sand grains being easily removed using a stout pin.
pit
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Many schools are fortunate to have an outside sand pit as well.
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Now suppose we ask Professor Summerlee, after a particular landing in the sand pit , what he has just experienced.
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It appears that there has been some misunderstanding with regard to the sand pit cover. 3.
■ VERB
blow
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A thin, bad-tempered breeze blew sand into our faces and whipped up under my skirt.
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Snow flurries wafted in Saturday afternoon, mixing with the blowing sand and occasionally giving the Mall the look of winter tundra.
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But they are not for effect, they are to keep pollen and blowing sand and wind out of his contact lenses.
bury
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The sea wall ended, steps going down from the promenade and burying themselves in sand .
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Many wrasses bury themselves in the sand at night.
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It is possible that the reactors will never be demolished, but will be buried in mounds of sand or gravel.
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The seeds of Nuphar must be stored in cold surroundings, either covered with moss or buried in the sand .
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Archaeologists found it in a boat-shaped tomb 29m long, made out of mud bricks and buried deep in the sand .
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He was buried in the sand .
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We just buried ourselves in the sand .
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A solitary star plummeted downward to bury itself in the sand beside Alec's foot.
fill
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If we fill the wheelbarrow with sand in the pit, it's too heavy to lift out.
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His mouth felt dry, as if some one had filled it with sand .
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The side pockets can be filled with sand and pebbles to anchor the tent if it's breezy.
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It was if some one had filled it with sand .
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The gaps between the skeletons were filled in by sand and the even tinier remains of micro-organisms.
lie
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Tim was lying on the sand , looking in the direction the man had gone.
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We lay on the glossy sand as the waves rustled up, soaked us and retreated.
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Nearby, two rusting medieval cannons lie half-buried in the sand .
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There would be no more lying in the warm sand dunes.
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The watchman lay down on the sand and put his arms together over his head.
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The area is dependent on fishing and farming, yet the fishing boats lie idle in the sand .
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It was high tide and the thing lay all along the sand .
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Simon's jacket lay on the sand .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bury your head in the sand
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If you bury your head in the sand now, you may lose your house.
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You'll never solve your problems if you just bury your head in the sand -- you have to face them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The neighbors' children played happily in the sand .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All-terrain-vehicle tracks cross the white sand in the bed of the North Fork of the Red.
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As they ran over the pulleys, a slurry of sand or tungsten carbide was poured on the wire.
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Everything about it was grey-brown - houses, donkeys, sand and peasants' heavy robes.
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Here the effects of the weather - snow, wind, sand , rain and fog - are shown.
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It is possible that the reactors will never be demolished, but will be buried in mounds of sand or gravel.
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Just little puffs of sand in the short grass.
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Wet sand can be moulded, whilst dry sand is much more elusive.
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You will notice phrases like crocodile tears, the elephant never forgets, and the ostrich burying its head in the sand .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any wood block floor will eventually need some maintenance by being sanded down and resealed.
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If it does need sanding, get this done and then give the scrub and wash treatment.
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Instead of producing something his neighbors wanted, he dreamily sawed and sanded something utterly useless to them.
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Parts of the fairway had reverted to sand dune.
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The solvent type paint removers do not normally raise the grain and it is not necessary to sand after stripping.
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The Unabomber, carefully sanding down his wooden bomb covers, would have been untouched by it.