Sentence examples for collecting sand from inspiring English sources

Since the 1970's, when he began collecting sand on vacations with his wife, Florence, Mr. D'Errico's collection has grown to more than 13,000 samples.

For Mr. D'Errico, collecting sand serves two purposes.

During the spill, he started collecting sand samples in July 2010 at the municipal beach in Pensacola, Fla.

Mr. D'Errico said collecting sand also serves as a great education in subjects like science, geography and historical preservation.

"In situ" seed bank analysis was carried out by collecting sand samples in different dune ecosystems of Tuscany and Sardinia.

Their farm operates with very low inputs and use their manure as direct fertilizer on fields after collecting sand to reuse for bedding.

Beside a rusting ferry ship nearby, groups of young men collected sand into large nylon sacks.

Residents came by with shovels to collect sand, but were told by a parks officer they were not allowed to take sand directly off the beach.

Well, here's a nice, two-income French couple who have a great apartment and collect sand from the deserts of the world.

After lunch we walked in the desert to examine a bricked-up mine shaft and to collect sand for gold panning back at Mister Jalopy's workshop.

We also collected sand samples at approximately 20 m intervals along 13 shore-perpendicular transects extending up to 550 m inland, for grain size and mineral assemblage analysis.