Sentence examples for pound sand from inspiring English sources

The phrase "pound sand" is considered to be slang and would not be considered correct in formal written English.
It is most commonly used in informal speech, often as an exclamation or an insult. Example: "If you think I'm going to do your work for you, you can pound sand!" (This is a rude way of telling someone to go away and do the task themselves.).

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GILLIGAN: Pound sand, baby.

He replied, "Go pound sand".

The rest of us could go pound sand".

"Pound sand," Mr. McGeady recalls responding over the telephone.

And telling Donald Trump to pound sand doesn't even require leaving the spiritual couch.

They can, as my father used to say, "go pound sand".

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A cement mixer that can pour 10 cubic yards of concrete delivered a well-defined blend of materials to the Flowerhill Drive corner: 10,260 pounds of sand, 20,100 pounds of gravel, 6,060 pounds of cement and 9.4 pounds of an agent that adds air bubbles to help the dry concrete flex with changing temperatures.

"I take more than a pound of sand off the beaches in a month in the summer in my shoes and kayak," he said.

Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand.

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