Sentence examples for bands of sand from inspiring English sources
Some of the members succeeded admirably, as is seen in a modernist vase from 1915 by Sara Galner depicting an abstract landscape of dark trees and white flowers against bands of sand, blue sky and white clouds.
He pointed to the successively deeper chalky bands of sand and rattled off a series of infamous storms that produced them: the hurricane of 1954; the storm of 1938, which send a bulging dome of water through downtown Providence; the hurricane known as the Great Gale of 1815; and two from the 1630's that were too close in time to discriminate.
When the scientists found the telltale bands of sand, they measured the ages of organic matter in the layers with carbon-14 dating.
Open daily except Sundays, noon to 11pm The beach at South Frigate Bay is more than just a band of sand – it encapsulates the party spirit of St Kitts.
But he confounds expectation and theatrically blows it out, at which we cut to the desert, a russet band of sand and an orange band of sky, between which the sun begins to appear.
A sun-drenched composition of the scalloped, slanting roofs of a white building, at right, is inflected by a distant view of seashore umbrellas, at left, marching along a band of sand topped by a strip of sea and then the sky.
In the study area, hard clay with impregnated caliche nodule, granite gneiss complex (Chotanagpur Gneissic), laterite, an alternating band of sand, silt and clay encompassed an area of 1760 km2 (38%), 712.58 km2 (15%), 1116 km24%24%) and 833.39 km2 (18%), respectively, as represented in Fig. 4a.
The Glenrothes area's geology is predominantly made up by glacial deposits with the subsoil largely consisting of boulder clay with a band of sand and gravel in the area to the north of the River Leven.
Practically all of the western shore of the island is one continuous stretch of beach where you can glimpse occasional bands of pink sand.
The present investigation also examines the fundamental interface mechanism and attempts to define the associated rupture zones in cohesionless material with the aid of thin vertical bands of coloured sand cast in a large distinctly fabricated pullout box.
As of last year, all that remained of one of the world's most wow-factor beaches was a band of white sand so narrow it would challenge even the trimmest beach body.
