Sentence examples for sand mountain from inspiring English sources

He returned to Sand Mountain with a law degree and won an election to a local judicial district.

Sand mountain, isolated mountain of sand formed in an open desert area by the action of strong winds blowing from various directions.

Sand Mountain is a popular off-highway vehicle area, open to motorbikes, all-terrain vehicles and dune buggies, but it also offers hiking and biking opportunities.

He grew up on Sand Mountain, an Appalachian foothill in north Alabama where his family looked like the other families on the mountain: poor, white, Baptist.

He may have spent his career attempting to re-create Alabama in the image of his beloved Sand Mountain, and doing so has tapped into Alabama's idiosyncratic, sometimes backward, sometimes noble yearning for self determination.

I first heard him mentioned by his long-time buddy Guy Clark at Sand Mountain in Houston, then had someone steer me to the Old Quarter on a night that he was playing.

It slopes from above 2,600 feet (800 metres) near the border with Yemen northeastward down almost to sea level near the Persian Gulf; individual sand mountains reach elevations of 800 feet (250 metres), especially in the eastern part.

Then the sky lightens to the new day, revealing the sea of sand mountains, their crisp edges and perfect curves wrought and polished by the expert chisel of the Kalahari and Atlantic winds.

The rest is a monkey puzzle of lakes, bogs, eskers (winding, narrow ridges of sand), mountains and forest, filled with just about any creature of the north you'd care to meet.

The Rubʿ al-Khali has five general types of sand terrains: barchan (crescentic) or transverse; seif; giant dune complexes, or "sand mountains," that take the shapes of domes, pyramids, huge crescents, and sigmoidal (S-shaped) ridges; hook-shaped dunes; and dunes with vegetation and moisture.

In the mid-1980's, a few companies began mining the tailings dumps themselves, converting the sand mountains, scoop by scoop, into a watery slurry, which is piped to processing plants on the city's south and east sides for gold extraction.