But coarse sand is much more scarce in nature and known resources are not likely to last a century.

A hundred years ago the biggest diamonds men could make looked like coarse sand.

The coarse sand was very hard on our feet.

Coarse sand was used to form the carriageway between them.

She drew a line with her bare left foot in the coarse sand.

Pulse until the chocolate becomes very fine – almost like coarse sand.

Cut in the butter until the mixture resembles coarse sand.

However, it will even grow in plain coarse sand or fine gravel.

This design may be used in gravel or coarse sand where the water table is shallow.

I walked about, and my boots crunched on the coarse sand.

The model is applicable for medium to coarse sand environments.

Particles in the stream include coarse sand and fine gravel.

Add the butter, and pulse a few times more, until it resembles coarse sand.

The brick wall was dark, and I could not see beyond it, where coarse sand tumbled into the sea.

Under his hull, the coarse sand was damp from the last heavy rain.

Our feet were sore from running barefoot on the coarse sand at the beach.

Only clean, coarse sand can be kept on these beaches by the motion of the waves.

Some clay with coarse sand or gravel can be provided in the tank.

By hand signals he told me to search in the coarse sand patches between rocks.

Dark droplets trickled across the coarse sand of the floor.

The ideal planting medium is a combination of fine and coarse sand.

Later, the deep layer of vegetation became buried under coarse sands.

Soil should allow good drainage, with at least a third to a half made up of coarse sand and gravel.

Small juveniles are found mostly under rocks and among coarse sands.

The beach consists of coarse sand and small, smooth pebbles.

A pebbled texture with the look and feel of coarse-grained sand.

It has a rough surface, much of which is muddy and some parts are mostly made up of fine- to coarse-grained sand.

In Malta, the game is played on a smooth surface covered with coarse-grained sand, with teams of three players.

Coarse-grained sand, gravel, and fractured bedrock aquifers are particularly susceptible to widespread transport of viruses and other pathogenic organisms.

If the soil remains in clumps, it is cohesive; if it appears to be coarse-grained sand or gravel, it is considered granular.

Yet another method of fracturing the rocks to increase production was to pump a mixture of soap and kerosene, followed by a coarse-grained sand, also under intense pressure.

Tapeats Sandstone averages 525 million years old and is made of medium- to coarse-grained sand and conglomerate that was deposited on an ancient shore (see 3a in figure 1).

Samples have been extracted from till, clay, silt, and fine- to coarse-grained sands in drift and non-indurated bedrock from more than 1000 test-holes in southern Saskatchewan.

We landed on the north side of the bay, where beaches of coarse-grained sand ran up like ramps to merge with the caked debris of sun-dried slime and weed.

This conglomerate consisted originally of gravelly sands and sandy gravels composed of subrounded pebbles of red jasper, white quartzite, semi-transparent quartz, and black chert, with coarse-grained sand matrix.

The Sandhill Frog inhabits coarse-grained sand dunes on the coast of Western Australia, ranging from Shark Bay in the north, Kalbarri National Park in the south and Cooloomia in the east.

According to the Maryland Geologic Survey, the exposure consists of "Gray to greenish-gray, micaceous, argillaceous, sparsely glauconitic, fine- to coarse-grained sand, locally indurated calcareous beds; phosphatic pebbles; thickness 0 to 20 feet."

When he had proved he could lift the bladder between his ankles and hold it steady for a count of twenty, Valerius took it away to fill it with the coarse-grained sand from the edge of the strait, near to where the ferry left and landed on its thrice-daily trips to the mainland.