Sentence examples for lack of sand from inspiring English sources

Suriname might have gone the way of nearby Barbados and St. Lucia and their multimillion-dollar resorts if not for one thing: a lack of sand.

Then cool off on one of the island's quiet pebble beaches – the crystal clear waters make up for the lack of sand.

It is the primary filling material for subgrades in this region because of the lack of sand and gravel materials.

Obstacle marks emanate from the lee faces of the barchans and represent a lack of sand deposition and exposure of gravel lag on the sea floor.

Strong waves resulted in severe coastal erosion, and at one beach, the lack of sand destroyed a natural cove.

Baumgardner and colleagues suggested recently that the relative paucity of inland waterways and lack of sand soils in Milwaukee County explains, at least in part, the significantly lower incidence of blastomycosis there compared to the Eagle River area of northcentral Wisconsin [31].

The movement and distribution of nomads in Sudan is influenced by a number of either environmental or human-related factors that determine their location: i) seasonal shortage of water; ii) density of biting flies; iii) a lack of salt in sand soil; and iv) the culture of the population (Weibel et al. 2008).

The lack of natural sand and the great quantity of demolition waste that exists in the city makes one realize the potential benefits of the use of this abundant waste material to create recycled fine aggregates for their use in the production of masonry mortars.

The lack of the sand-rich sediments might be one of the possible reasons to cause the high Poisson's ratio in the Japan Trench prism toe.

Georgian artist Kvesitadze's kinetic sculpture, "Sphere," which was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2011 and was also scheduled to be shown in Austin, Texas, at this year's South By Southwest festival until the show in Laurel Canyon was extended, is about "globalization, migration and lack of borders," Sands said.

After The Literary Workshop had to be discontinued because of lack of advertising, Mr. Sand worked briefly as a newspaper reporter and a magazine circulation director.