Sentence examples for bed of sand from inspiring English sources

Social capital isn't built on a bed of sand.

Each outer well contains a thick bed of sand and charcoal.

So she tried again this summer in that new bed of sand.

A digested sludge slurry is spread on an open bed of sand and allowed to remain until dry.

Her photograph shows her on a bed of sand with a large paint brush, pretending to paint the letters of her poem on an enormous wall.

Both of these categories are unknown in Africa and South America, where sacrifices are made on the ground or on a bed of sand.

Each cricket must be kept in its own clay pot on a bed of sand-and-clay mortar, and diets can include ground shrimp, red beans and goat liver.

For the erect branches lie or stand against flesh-coloured beds of sand, that in their gracefully voluptuous swirls are unmistakeably feminine and invitingly sexual.

The former are northern New Mexico's version of the Christmas candle, fashioned of small paper shopping sacks and lighted from within by squat candles held upright in beds of sand.

If filters were added outside the reactor building, they could take the form of tanks of water or beds of sand, through which the gas would be bubbled; one design uses a venturi, which has a shape similar to an hourglass.

Closer to the surface, sunlit pinnacles of coral pierced the gently sloping beds of sand.