Sentence examples for sand drifting from inspiring English sources

CLOSE your eyes and imagine a Caribbean paradise: throngs of baby sitters minding tots around the raucous swimming pool, chicken fingers on every menu and Big Bird plodding cheerfully along the beach, the white sand drifting across the Muppet's yellow feathers.

Polycyclic soil sequences provide valuable archives of alternating unstable periods (sand drifting) and stable periods (soil formation) in NW-European coversand landscapes during the Subatlantic.

The accurate prediction of windblown sand drift events approaching human infrastructures and activities is fundamental in arid lands.

Many sat for hours in ambulances and buses before being transported to safety through sand drifts and debris-filled floodwaters.

Along the edges of the industrial park, the sand drifts across empty streets; on one road, I counted two hundred and thirty-two street lights that weren't working.

NASA said Monday that its Mars rover Curiosity had analyzed a Martian sand drift, but — alas — had not found signs of the building blocks of life.

The cluster pine, or pinaster (P. pinaster), a vigorous grower in coastal sand, has been cultivated extensively for the purpose of stabilizing sand drifts, especially on the dunes of the Bay of Biscay and the Mediterranean.

"The wing of the corn beetle affects the direction of the wind, the way the sand drifts, the way the light reflects into the eye of man beholding his reality.

I took the e-tron through sand drifts and over blind rocky dunes.

Typically, sand drift net direction and intensity are assessed by means of the resultant drift potential.

Directional statistics of the sand drift are given for each site.