Sentence examples for sheets of sand from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Outside the moraines, meltwater laid down sheets of outwash sands, which, offering poorer soils, are frequently forested.

"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".

They can be appreciated without a history lesson as a beautiful reminder of man's constant struggle to fill his blank spaces -- whether they be empty pages, sheets of canvas or miles of sand -- with dreams and meaning.