Sentence examples for harder sand from inspiring English sources

This line of sand hills, which were high enough to see Katia oasis from, marked the eastern edge of an area of very soft and shifting sand beyond which were lower dunes and harder sand where movement by both infantry and mounted forces was considerably easier.

He lay for a long time on the hard sand.

Lifeguards had stopped the usual flow of Sunday traffic on the hard sand.

Some sage advice: it's easier to make a proper turn on the hard sand near the surf.

Hege had also seen a couple of earlier Daytonas out on the beach, when the stock cars barreled northward on the hard sand before looping back on A1A.

We drove across a plain of hard sand and light gravel so vast that we could see nothing beyond the horizon.

After driving all day along the hard sand at the ocean-edge, we came to the cape, with seals and the jackals who stalked them.

In Daytona, in 1903, two vacationing auto manufacturers, Ransom Olds and Alexander Winton, raced their latest creations down the hard sand beaches at forty-eight m.p.h.

He felt as he had when, his one weekend at the Jersey Shore the past summer, a wave carrying his surfing body was breaking too early and about to throw him forward, down into the hard sand.

Sleep came immediately, and with it vivid recollections of a bonefish tailing on hard sand 10 miles south of Gran Roque, and Mr. Velasquez smiling as his client saw it on his own, roll-casting 30 feet of line and a weightless little fly right off its nose.

You would pick it up for his account of walking the Broomway alone, which he does in bare feet, the better to feel the "brain-like corrugations" of the hard sand: "I took my shoes off, and placed them on a stand of eelgrass.