Sentence examples for sand rather than from inspiring English sources

If you want sand rather than soil, the coast is 45 minutes' drive away.

The mounds were composed of sand, rather than the clay used to build most major league mounds.

"Spend the money now to test the sand — rather than spend all the money on remediation if something is found".

It shows ministers are burying their heads in the sand rather than facing up to the growing levels of overcrowding, staff cuts, violence and suicide".

I have preferred to play the ostrich with its head in the sand rather than check what kind of responsibility I might carry.

The method of taking away existing sand, rather than piling and packing it, makes Mr. Muhs a rarity among sand sculptors and vulnerable to gravity and wind.

Beach sands, rather than consisting of quartz grains derived from granite, as on the mainland, are made of fragments of shell, coral and coralline algae, together with basalt grains, and basaltic minerals like black diopside, and green olivine.

With a typically low reproductive output in Acochlidia (max. of 40 eggs in P. milaschewitchii, KMJ pers. obs)., free veliger larvae are assumed to stay in the interstices of the sand grains rather than entering the water column [ 74] thereby avoiding long distance dispersal.

His hair is short and shiny as if sanded down rather than cut; his shirt is in pieces.

"This is really a campaign against tar sands expansion rather than a single pipeline," said Susan Casey-Lefkowitz, the director of the international program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group that is a leading American critic of the process.

Power sanders work just like power grinders, except that they vibrate a sanding pad rather than rotate a disc.