running sand

For example, some homeowners are running sand fences across the beach in front of their homes.

Cast iron was used because of problems with running sand under the original stone lock.

It shot out geysers that plummeted back still coherent, arches of running sand.

Karen legends refer to a 'river of running sand' which ancestors reputedly crossed.

The pattern shifted like running sand.

The Tirari Desert features salt lakes and large north-south running sand dunes.

But it was as if I scooped running sand in my two hands, there was nothing substantial in him for my fingers to grip upon.

'The running sand, darling.

Bias membah (running sand) has a white warp and weft in which grey and white stripes alternate.

She stretched and lay back against the slope, gazing up at pink wisps of cloud, running sand through her fingers, listening to the surf pounding on the beach below.

The main piers on the Howrah side were sunk by open wheel dredging, while those on the Kolkata side required compressed air to counter running sand.

Even the shifting dunes with precipitous slip-faces of loosely running sand were the homes of sand-burrowing lizards and the venomous side-winding adders that preyed upon them.

This has a high water table, and a subsoil of lenticulated glacial drift containing pockets of clay and running sand overlain in part by peat, so this is not very stable.

A large and long running sand mine in Queensland, Australia (on North Stradbroke Island) provides a case study in the (disastrous) environmental consequences on a fragile sandy-soil based ecosystem, justified by the provision of low wage casual labor on an island with few other work options.