Sentence examples for eating sand from inspiring English sources

They were completely oblivious to the pleas of one child to walk down to the water, and to their younger one eating sand.

There is precious little grazing land for the yaks along the route, and sometimes the beasts become so hungry that they begin eating sand.

Nor were we expected to do anything after the debrief but watch videos and photos of his boys eating sand or going down some slide.

Think of the divergence of interests, for example, between the grunts who are actually fighting this war, who have been eating sand and spilling their blood in the desert, and the power brokers who fought like crazy to make the war happen and are profiting from it every step of the way.

McIlroy goes right...and he's eating sand.

The penguin, nicknamed 'Happy Feet' was taken in by Wellington Zoo after he became ill from eating sand.

I had 25 first cousins, and I remember many summer family reunions eating sand-infused slices of sheet cake on the beaches of Southern California, so lost in the cousin crush of the moment that I could hardly swallow.

But a coral polyp tried to eat sand only once in 10 trials.

He has eaten sand, pebbles, stones, cigarette ends, pen tops, the ends of plastic razors, string, Sellotape.

They eat sand particles, digesting any micro-organisms and nutrients and passing the sand as waste through their tail, leaving a distinctive trail or "cast" on the beach.

"I've been putting sand in my salad; I eat sand, " Mr. O'Neal said, with a mock-menacing mumble, asked how he'd been preparing.