His throat felt like someone had poured sand down it.

An easy way to heat the pipe is by pouring hot sand into it.

No wonder his eye turrets felt as if someone had poured sand in them when they swiveled.

The desert wind pours sand into their hinges, no watchman comes to ease them.

From a small brown fist she continued to pour sand on his stomach.

A very efficient way to destroy a car is to pour sand into the gas tank.

He poured warm sand upon her legs, then gallantly brushed it off, one grain at a time.

The ruling, he added, "just pours sand into that engine of discovery."

In connection with rules and regulations, a colleague recently asked me why there is an insistence on 'pouring sand into every moving part'.