Sentence examples for elements of sand from inspiring English sources

And while there are still the familiar elements of sand and water, they are no longer there to be shoveled and splashed so much as turned into landscapes of fanciful design.

The research identifies the need to develop new procedures for the design of the internal elements of sand filters and for field operation conditions in order to improve localized irrigation performance.

Enormous sandhills created by the venomous search for diamonds surround the town, and the fierce heat means the landscape is stripped down to the most basic elements of sea, sand and scrub.

You've probably already guessed the element at the heart of these revolutions - silicon, the main component of sand.

Nearby, Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle's installation, At the Risk of the Real, also hinges upon the element of desert sand, but here it is a dynamic material, rather than a silent object of meditation.

Ms. Day sampled six and a half feet of sediment core from Angkor that allowed her to study its physical properties, like the abundance of various elements and the ratio of sand to finer-grained materials.

The highest water contents were obtained by adding 2 mL of MSN (MSNCopt medium with no carbon source, iron and trace elements added) to 10 g of sand or soil.

Neither a ghost story nor a psychological case study, although it contains elements of both, "Under the Sand" captures the enigmatic complexities of emotion with bracing objectivity (Scott).

Thus, lens clusters are interpreted as discrete growth elements of the mouth bar sand lobes, and lenses as individual bedforms making up these growth elements.

They are reminiscent of natural elements like sand, soil and rock.

Understanding the characteristics of the dermal response to the bite of sand flies is a critical element of strategies to control leishmaniasis using vaccines that target salivary proteins.