The sand crept in through every aperture under normal circumstances, and when aMidnightkamiseen blew you could have found yourself buried alive in your own home as the sand flooded in.

Waiting for the End At the airport, the sand creeps in through the tents and the soldiers while away the last hours reading, playing cards and listening to music.

Dutifully, she tried to eat, but the sand and dust that had plagued their progress all day had crept into the food as well.

The blowing dust and sand crept into every crevice the way water did but the grating and rasping betrayed its source.

Did the encroachment of the sands and the filling up of the springs cause the people to abandon it, or was Kara-Shehr a city of silence before the sands crept over the walls?

Those tiny fires must have caused the creature pain, but it showed no sign of being intimidated; the great black mound continued to close in, rasping as sand crept across the floor.

During thousands of years it had crumbled and fallen in upon itself and some of it had dissolved to dust, and the sand had crept in and covered it and sifted among its fragments until it was simply a part of the hill.

Ecologically, it's a nightmare, but the sands have been creeping this way for a long time.

The sand crept in anyway.

WHY YOU NEED IT - If you're going to have a beach barbecue or eat anything more complicated than a granola bar, you'll be holding paper plates in your lap and sand will creep into the mayonnaise.