Sentence examples for drifting sand from inspiring English sources

The ruins were eventually buried in drifting sand.

South Taranaki Bight, similarly handicapped by drifting sand, is bordered by an alluvial plain.

The bight's good natural harbours are blocked by drifting sand, and the only adequate port is artificial (at New Plymouth).

A local man has reported finding as many as 100 bomblets in all of the surrounding area, but said many had been covered by drifting sand.

In small parts of the area, the surface has stabilised as a result of vegetation growth, but elsewhere drifting sand has spread and covered previously stable surfaces.

The buildings at the site had been constructed above a limestone cavern that later collapsed, probably in an earthquake, and were buried by drifting sand.

In retirement, Underwood wrote a book, "Drifting Sands of Party Politics," that warned about the influence of special interests.

In retirement, Underwood wrote a book, "Drifting Sands of Party Politics," that warned about the influence of special interests.

Abu Dhabi is a place of palaces and pearls, deluxe hotels and gaudy opulence – apart from the desert, that is, the rippling, drifting sands that speak only of desolation.

His second journey began in 1876 at Kuldja in westernmost Xinjiang province, China, and took him southeastward across the peaks of the Tien Shan and the drifting sands of the Takla Makan to the foot of the Altun Mountains.

And Quaraiyat Al Fau faded into the drifting sands.