"sand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Each foot of shoreline was under attack; each year the island would grow smaller as its bor- rowed sand slipped back into the bay.
- The sand was slipping under her feet An unwary step could plunge her into the holes and dips.
- He tried to run, but the sand slipped under his feet, and he felt as if he were swimming in dust.
- "The sand slips right through it, and it's water-resistant."
- Huge granite rocks fall into the translucent sea, palm trees quiver at the water's edge and the sand slips through your toes.
- The soft white sand slips as quickly through our fingers as those childhood years in which happiness is sealed with a toy plane and a caramel fudge ice-cream.
- Every time I start to get close to something tangible, someone I can put my hands on, the sand slips through my fingers.
- In the same instant, the sand all around Odrade and Sheeana slipped forward into the fissure, dragging both of them with it.
- Jealously, bit by bit, he let the black sand slip away.
- The sand in the air slipped, fell back, splashed in the waters and thudded in little heaps on to roads and houses.
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