Sentence examples for drop sand from inspiring English sources

In areas without electrical power lines, balloons can "drag rope" for many kilometres at a time without having to drop sand or release gas.

I remember seeing one land on the riverside, where I used to go fishing with my grandfather, and fly to the power plant to drop sand on the burning reactor.

Try not to drop sand dollars or handle them roughly.

He added, "Somebody has talked about dropping sand in there, et cetera".

In the ensuing days, helicopters flew sorties over the reactor, dropping sand to impede the fire and boron to slow the ongoing reaction.

Then, you drop the sand and that's all the people who make it to the next level.

Drop large sand bags from helicopters to plug the levees -- closing the barn door after the horse has run off.

Railroad locomotives drop angular sand onto the rails in front of their wheels as they brake, to improve traction.

He admits that his work is like "a drop of sand in the ocean", but that it does send a clear message to abusers.

Previous studies have shown that the main pressure drop across sand media filters, which are widely used in microirrigation, occurs in the underdrain elements.

In this work, electrochemical corrosion of X65 carbon steel under deoxygenated water drop and sand deposit simulating the corrosive environments potentially developed in diluted bitumen transmission pipelines was investigated by various electrochemical measurements and a localized electrochemical impedance spectroscopy technique.