Sentence examples for back to sand from inspiring English sources

But when he scooped a great double handful of water up to his cracked lips it turned back to sand and fell through his fingers.

Though conditions have improved substantially since the worst days of the financial crisis, investors remain selective, resulting in a number of deferred IPOs as companies that meet resistance over fundamentals or price decide to step back to sand down the rough edges.

Pacified, the kid heads back to the sand.

A gentle swat sent it sidestepping back to the sand.

In the words of one soldier: "We're turning it back to the sand".

Collazo had an open head wound and had been rushed back to a sand lot in front of Checkpoint 20 to await a medevac helicopter.

A moment of quiet before rappelling back to the sand, the giraffe and whatever else an afternoon of climbing in Malibu might bring.

Or as a person like one of the genuinely tough boat crews who pluck bathers from rips and deliver them back to the sand with casual grace.

It felt as if we were apart from the group for hours, but when we wandered back to the sand we could still see them, walking out onto a rocky promontory to watch the sun set.

Ever inventive and ultra-impractical, Mrs. Armitage swims right back to the sand for an inner tube shaped like an "inflatable desert island" to help keep the quickly tiring Breakspear afloat.

The plan, which was overturned by an appeals court last year and was later sent back to Judge Sand for review, would require the state and Yonkers each to pay $575 million over nine years to remedy educational disparities.