"dune" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used to refer to a hill or ridge of sand formed by the wind, usually found near a beach or desert. For example: "The large dune overlooked the beach."
Nicky, my wife, was on the two-way radio to the other vehicle, telling them to wait at the top of the dune for us to get clear.
We strongly oppose the listing of the dune sage brush lizard either as a threatened or an endangered species.
On one occasion – this doesn't sound like much unless you were there – we got to a huge sand dune area with 13 minutes to spare.
EVERYBODY loves an anniversary, as it is a dune in the sands of time where someone puts in a stick, turns around and surveys the scope of the past.
With gentle breezes off the ocean and a broad sandy landing zone, fledgling pilots can launch themselves off an eight-metre-high dune and glide gently down towards the sea.
Indeed, by taking several cores, progressively further from the coastal dune, and seeing how far a sand layer extends, he can make a good guess at how powerful a passing hurricane was.His first discovery is one that is gratifying to the insurance companies: the record of the past 5,000 years from 22 different sites supports current guesses about the frequencies of really big storms.
Mr Clinton, after all, came into office promising to do much the same thing.In this section Daggers drawn Changing camels in mid-dune Disabling the national education defence system "All the news that's fit to print" Hard luck, hard landing?
Not everything in New Mexico is as wonderful as the scenery that ranges from snow-capped mountains to dune-filled desert: rates of drunk-driving, crime and drug abuse are all above the national average, and, at around 18%, the proportion of the population living in poverty is America's highest.
A giant sand-dune of debt, worth at least $100 billion, looked set to suffocate the shiny city-state.
Today Harlech is a resort village with magnificent beach-and-dune scenery, the Royal St .David's Golf Club, the nature reserve of Morfa Harlech, and access to the mountains of Snowdonia National Park.
Dune-building is already under way in some areas, but some oceanfront property owners have refused to sign the necessary easements; it might spoil the view.
