The wind was making the sand blow, and the fog was rolling in, giving the world outside an illusion of dusk.

During earthquakes, some have erupted as "sand blows" or "sand volcanoes," but this seems to have occurred almost exclusively in the Charleston area.

Over here sand blows; over there sand blows.

They took themselves to a sand blow from which all the water had drained, and which had absorbed sunlight and was now satisfactorily, by draconic standards, hot.

I could feel the sand blow against my skin like talcum powder.

Fraser Island has coloured sand cliffs on its eastern beach as well as numerous walking tracks from short boardwalks to longer walks which cross sand blows.

The New Madrid earthquakes covered the region with sand blows, thousands of which remain today and can be seen as large, light-colored sandy patches in agricultural fields.

A sand volcano or sand blow is a cone of sand formed by the ejection of sand onto a surface from a central point.

Linear sand blows are just as common, and can still be seen in the New Madrid area.