Sentence examples for sand covering from inspiring English sources

"We now have sand covering areas where there used to be forests, and there is less ground for livestock to graze".

The Rub al Khali, in Arabic, is another vast expanse of sand, covering about 650,000 square kilometres of the Arabian peninsula – an area about the size of France.

Chambered calcareous shells formed by cephalopods and by protozoans of the order Foraminifera become so large and so numerous that the broken remains of the shells may constitute a type of sand covering large areas of tropical beaches; the pieces may also consolidate into rock.

The attack on Professor Rezaul Karim Siddiquee was so frenzied that its traces remain more than a month later, arcs of dried blood spattered up a pink wall and a pile of sand covering bloodstains that had pooled on the ground where the softly spoken lecturer was all but beheaded.

There is no shortage of white sand covering these expansive shores -- and trust me after gazing at the pearly shoreline and crystal-blue Ocean, you will be compelled to dive right in.

Hence, a second trial was set up with sand covering 100% of the bottom area.

It is encouraging to note from Fig. 3 that a reasonably unique isotropic normal compression line exists for different sands covering a wide range of initial void ratios and compression characteristics.

Plans for a new protective structure, to be built in 2013, mean that the palace's dramatic "carpet mosaics" may also go on permanent display, instead of having their sand coverings removed only on rare occasions.

Quartz sand abounds, covering more than a third of the desert surface.

A narrow belt of small sand dunes covering the westernmost of these ridges expands inland where gaps in the relief occur.

This pit viper (subfamily Crotalinae) has small horns above each eye, possibly to keep sand from covering the eyes when the snake is buried.