"sand" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Andy made the girls lie down together, and then he piled sand high over them, leaving a space over their noses for breathing.
- Without a strong levee, the people here have been racing to pile sand and sandbags in front of the enroaching river.
- "Piled sand just does not stand up to time as much as a natural dune," he said.
- It was a prairie-dog town, where the little squirrel-like animals had piled up much sand.
- On top of the grass she had piled sand.
- Only a little wind could pile sand up behind her so she might never be floated.
- The Iraqis piled sand and gravel on the runways, apparently in an attempt to prevent aircraft from landing.
- She sat down beside and a trifle behind him, and began idly piling sand in her lap.
- They piled sand around the cabanas to keep them from being swept away, as they were four years ago, like so many floating boxes.
- As they emerge from the ground, wind begins to pile sand up at the base of the plants.
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