Sentence examples for sheet of sand from inspiring English sources

You might not expect your daily puzzle to come with a sheet of sand paper, but that's precisely what we need.

In addition, the braided distributary channels also perform some sorting, laying shallow sheets of sand and silt over the surface of the fan, while coarser sands and gravels are laid down in the main channels where water tends to flow more quickly.

The proportion of overbank deposits increases distally with sheets of sand deposited as lateral and terminal splays by unconfined flow.

The grains end up as level sheets of sand or are piled high in billowing sand dunes.

First a sandstorm swept through the nation and debilitated everyone with its hazy, blinding sheets of sand.

Tell anyone who is wet to take their clothes off and wrap up in whatever you have - leaves, towels, blankets or even tightly packed sheets of sand can provide warmth.

"Despite four hundred million people gathered in one China, we are, in fact, but a sheet of loose sand," he wrote.

Sun Yat-sen, the founding father of the Chinese Republic, despairingly referred to his people as "nothing but a sheet of loose sand".

Due to siltation the top soil layer in the agriculture fields is overlain by thin sheet of fine sands which is less fertile.

Subsequent block heave of the low terrace region exposed a vast sheet of marine sands which is continuously surficially reworked by aeolian processes, while the original alluvial plain landscape in the high terrace area was preserved and started degrading only by early Holocene thermokarst development.

At the end the men and women move through sheets of fine sand pouring down at the front of the stage.