Sentence examples for sand settled from inspiring English sources

As the desert sand settled around Alastair Cook's sterling century yesterday, the attention moved sharply to his opening partner.

The storm did pass, though the sky took on a strange, thick, grey appearance, like silty fog, as the sand settled.

As this sand settled, ponds were formed in depressions in the dunes, and a rich deciduous forest mixed with stands of pine grew up from the sandy soil.

And yet, as the sand settled, it was the performance of a newer team, Red Bull, and a younger driver, Sebastian Vettel – although both team and driver are already tiresomely too familiar for the liking of their harassed rivals – that provided the major talking points.

Have you ever gone to the beach, trekked through the hot sand, settled for some spot not far from the water, and then just plopped down from exhaustion?

The heaviest rocks settle first, then the finer clays and sand settle on top.

Let the dirt and sand settle in the bowl, then scoop the leeks from the water.

The highest layers of rock were formed by sand settling on the bottom of oceans more than two billion years ago.

As the desert inches south into the city of Timbuktu, the sand settles on your skin and the air feels heavy in your lungs.

There the river stream slows down abruptly and loses its transporting capacity, so that enormous quantities of gravel and sand settle on the bottom.

Later this week, once Hurricane Irma moves on, the waves recede, and the sand settles, Bergh will be out on the reef once more, inspecting the damage.