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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a dune" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a hill or ridge of sand formed by the wind, typically found in deserts or near beaches.
Example: "The children played joyfully on a dune, sliding down its sandy slopes."
Alternatives: "a sandhill" or "a sand mound".
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A year later O'Hara was dead, run over by a dune buggy on Fire Island.
"Right now, Darrelle is a dune buggy.
Racing a dune buggy in the desert, Nevada.
Akers is between a dune and hard place.
To build a dune requires sand and wind.
Predictably, out from behind a DUNE leaps SIR BEN.
She sat for a while on a dune, shivering in the cold wind.
He was sitting, he said, on a dune overlooking the Pacific Coast Highway.
I don't want to build anything except a dune, O.K.?" Warm applause followed.
"We went onto people's property and built a dune to protect their home," Oldham explained.
Their dog walked right up a dune and off the property.
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