Sentence examples for sand grain from inspiring English sources

"It's like having a sand grain on your voice," she says.

In some cases a line of iron oxides may indicate the boundary of the original sand grain.

A bit of your brain about the size of a sand grain contains 100,000 neurons and a billion synapses.

If Earth which is 12,742km, or 7,918 miles, across were shrunk to the size of a sand grain and placed on the desk of The Economist's science correspondent, the Moon would be a smaller sand grain about 3cm away.

Since 1980, the brownstone character of East Midtown, once quite evident, has become as a sand grain among boulders — 40-plus-story boulders, like the building at 520 Madison Avenue built in 1981 on the southwest corner of 54th.

The Hubble Space Telescope made that simple enough, but with a million or so galaxy images to sort through, it was like moving a pile of sand, grain by grain.

We used X-ray computed tomography (CT) to image and quantify the effect of a heterogeneous sand grain-size distribution on the formation and dissociation of methane hydrate, as well as the effect on water flow through the heterogeneous hydrate-bearing sand.

The film relies on a sand-grain-sized silicon wafer that can differentiate between two classes of bacteria, Gram-positive and Gram-negative, and "stains" them different colors.

The distribution and composition of several thousand tons of sand-grain size nickel iron droplets indicate that they condensed from a cloud of metallic vapours.

Lacking both air and a magnetic field, the Moon's surface is bombarded by radiation and sand-grain-size micrometeorites hitting at tens of thousands of miles per hour.

Noon 6. IT'S A SMALL WORLD A full chessboard on the head of a pin, a sand-grain-size working mechanical engine, a flea wearing golden shoes — these are some of the small miracles created by Mykola Syadristy, a self-taught master famed throughout the former Soviet Union.