Sentence examples for built of sand from inspiring English sources
When she led 5-3 in the second set the end looked close, but nerves can also affect a front-runner, and the previously rock-solid Erakovic suddenly collapsed like a house built of sand.
That this microstructure was practically the same regardless of whether it was built of sand in dry Senegal or clay in wet Guinea suggested structure, not material, might be the key to ventilation.
A member of the provincial congress (1775 76) at the outbreak of the Revolution, he sided with the patriot cause and took command (March 1776) of a fort he had built of sand and palmetto logs on Sullivan's Island off Charleston.
In the Netherlands engineers use something called a 'sand machine' — a massive manmade peninsula built of sand — that allows waves, wind and tides to more naturally build up beaches along the coast, in part to protect the sea from claiming wetlands.
For the 12 families who pay up to $73,000 a year for its sun-drenched security, the Village represents one answer to the overwhelming challenge of caring for loved ones whose short-term thoughts are eroding like castles built of sand.
An unbeaten professional record built of journeymen is like a castle built of sand.
Her parents, Hans-Eugen and Renate Will of Germany, bought the Queen Anne-style country house, built of sand-colored Cotswold stone and brick, after falling in love with its early 18th-century character and secluded setting.
A typical section of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt, which was completed in 1970, shows an embankment 111 metres (365 feet) high built of dune sand and rockfill on a very permeable foundation of deep alluvium.
Back, back we go in time and convolution, only to discover that the taint of crime and prison which Pip is desperate to escape is inescapable: not only is the idea of a "gentleman" built on sand, so is that idealisation of woman that was at the heart of Victorian romantic love.
The emerging speciality of David Cameron's government appears to be the creation of houses built on sand.
In Manama, a fantasy city built of the sands of oil money, we wind through quiet, dark, curbed and guttered streets.
