Sentence examples for sands that from inspiring English sources

Once there, it's jungle running into the white sands that ring the island and clear seas.

Its leaders dismiss hostility from greens to the tar sands that are the source of much of its hydrocarbons.

Here, however, it is the windy Bronx hills, not the lone and level sands, that stretch far away.

Unconsolidated sands may have permeabilities measured in hundreds of darcys, whereas consolidated sands that will transmit reasonable amounts of fluid have permeabilities of 0.01 to 1 darcy.

Some also carry diluted bitumen, the heavy crude from the tar sands that has a much higher carbon footprint than conventional oil.

Oil companies also say they need higher prices to develop complex and costly resources, like deepwater fields or tar sands, that have higher break-even costs.

For example, Canada has vast amounts of tar sands that can be rendered into heavy oil, but the cost of doing so is quite high.

Already, NASA has spent much of a $3 million appropriation to rebuild a long dune to replace protective sands that have been washed away.

There was limited rail off-loading capacity in American refineries outside the Gulf Coast, and only a small number of rail cars suitable to transport bitumen, the raw substance in oil sands that can be refined into petroleum products.

But you look around, you got tar sands -- that beats it".

"It was bombs and bullets and sacrifice made by the likes of Bobby Sands that brought Britain to the negotiating table.