Sentence examples for ocean of sand from inspiring English sources

America is flanked by two seas; Saudi Arabia, he says, is "isolated by an ocean of sand".

RAS LAFFAN INDUSTRIAL CITY, Qatar — The compact assembly of towers, tubes and tanks that make up the Oryx natural gas processing plant is almost lost in a vast petrochemical complex that rises here like a hazy mirage from a vast ocean of sand.

The winner also gets $50,000, after which the next round will presumably be on her. 10 P.M. (Sci Fi) STARGATE ATLANTIS After his failed search for Teyla (Rachel Luttrell), Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) returns to Atlantis, only to find it abandoned -- and an ocean of sand where water once was -- in this Season 4 finale.

But for me -- a tiny speck of life in this ocean of sand that could pass for the lunar Sea of Tranquility -- silent, solitary and seductively peaceful Serra Cafema awaits, and with it the promise of a sundowner gin & tonic amid the definition of splendid isolation.

He tells the prince about the Countess Clemence, who lives in a far-off Arab land, with its "oceans of sand" and "rivers of ash," which, of course, just makes her seem more wondrous to the prince.

And straight ahead is just beach and all that comes with it--stones smoothed by the ocean, stretches of sand, giant mounds of driftwood, towering rock formations on land and sea-stacks off shore, and birds soaring above the roaring icy-blue Pacific Ocean.

I was there for YourParadise, a hilariously overstuffed, week-long island rager that stretches from beachside dance-offs to floating party palaces way out in the middle of the ocean to sand bars that only appear for a few hours a day.

Douglas Green BEACH BAWL Little drops of ocean, Little grains of sand Make the sunburn lotion Something less than -- grand.

The smell of the ocean, the feel of sand on your feet and the burning of incense bring back the memories of a golden era in Venice Beach.

Set against a backdrop of jagged sandstone hills, backed by the rolling silica ocean of the Great Sand Sea and carpeted thick with palm groves, Siwa is the archetypal oasis.

Like Herzog's Fitzcaraldo, the effort seems almost an embrace of futility, a sign of an ancient leader's ability to make sand move like the ocean just as Moses had cut the ocean into a passage of sand.