adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sandy beach
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Corfu is known for its sandy beaches.
light/sandy (= containing a lot of sand )
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Some plants prefer sandy soils.
rocky/sandy shore
sandy (= yellowish-brown )
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He wore his long, sandy brown hair in a ponytail.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
beach
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You can hear the faint roar of the breakers on its empty sandy beaches .
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A frozen daiquiri on a sandy beach sounds considerably more alluring.
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She looked down over the little sandy beach .
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Lytham St Annes, a short distance to the south, has sandy beaches and several excellent golf courses.
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Iowa may not have sandy beaches , but it does have blacktop.
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Local Activities: Walks, sailing, wind-surfing, deep-sea fishing, golf, sandy beaches .
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It showed an old cottage, with woods behind and a sandy beach in front.
bottom
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In other words, they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident.
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I drink at it; but while I think I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
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To add to her worries the sandy bottom was thickly covered by myriads of minute creatures in their delicate shells.
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He imagined its slow approach, its dumb search along the sandy bottom among seaweed and snails and crabs.
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Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes, dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom .
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Their parade across the sandy bottom amuses me.
hair
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He had sandy hair and glasses and a yellow face.
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Hughes, with sandy hair half way down his back, grabs a marker and scribbles the agenda on a whiteboard.
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Detective Inspector Clarke had smooth, pink skin, pale eyes and receding sandy hair .
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He was an affable boy with sandy hair , a perennially scraped elbow, and an awful home.
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A bounce of thick, curly, sandy hair gave him a rather clownish appearance.
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She could see the small, sandy hairs in his nostrils.
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I glimpsed sandy hair , a white-grey face, glazed open eyes and slack jaw.
shore
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The sandy shore has hotel developments at one end.
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The 1988 school year began with a sunrise breakfast and sing on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan.
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Where fishermen once set out to sea, now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores .
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Odysseus as usual was on the sandy shore letting his salt tears flow while he gazed at the empty sea.
soil
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Early potatoes grow well on light sandy soils which warm quickly in the spring.
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We drove through it, got out, and walked in the sandy soil .
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Once he saw a glade, a secret place with a floor of pale, sandy soil .
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She crawled on the ground in agony, fingers digging into the sandy soil like steel claws.
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Recent bootprints were marked in the thin coating of green sandy soil that had been blown by gentle breezes over the buildings.
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I dig my heels into the sandy soil of the path.
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Anchorage is lower in friable or sandy soils and following rain.
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Black cattle, when they were used at all, ploughed light sandy soil .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sandy beach
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A girl wandered across the sandy riding track.
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A truck without lights was coming down the sandy road.
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Finally the sea encroached on this topography producing steep cliffs, inlets, sea stacks and sandy or shingly beach deposits.
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High rocky cliffs pitted with little sandy coves melt away into long stretches of silvery beach.
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I cut through shallow, sandy hills, but the struggle was anaesthetized by day-dreams.
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I drink at it; but while I think I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
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Lagoons, creeks, islands, coves and deserted sandy beaches abound.
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Nantucket is a small, barren, sandy place where, Ishmael tells us, they have to plant weeds.