Sentence examples for load of sand from inspiring English sources

Shipped a load of sand in from the Middle East and everything.

Then a truck driver named Reginald Denny, en route to Inglewood with a load of sand and gravel, rolled into the intersection.

The waves breaking just south of Santa Barbara carried a heavy load of sand, stirred up by four days of storm swells.

At an open-air market in Pristina, the concrete jungle from which the UN struggles to administer Kosovo, a load of sand changes hands for a fistful of crisp euro notes.

A lorry load of sand was dumped at one end earlier in the day and all down the sides of the street, right next to the tables where supporters are drinking and in some cases dancing, are loose piles of fist-size cobblestones.

A judge in New Mexico has awarded nearly US$80m to the family of a woman who died in 2002 when a truck hit her car and buried it in a load of sand, slowly suffocating her as teachers and students at a nearby school frantically tried to dig her out.

An estimate of the total mass of resuspended sediment, 12 days after the storm, was similar to the annual external load of (sand-free) particulate material to the southern basin.

In any given load of sands, only about ten per cent is bitumen; to produce synthetic crude, the other ninety per cent has to be separated out.

Loads of sand and small fire extinguishers are on hand to snuff out any fires.

Shamals, which try the patience of those caught in them, are dry winds that transport huge loads of sand and dust and alter the shapes of sand dunes.

Workers and National Guard soldiers plugged the leaks using nine dump-truck loads of sand, said Dee Bruemmer, the city's public works director.