Sentence examples for sifting through the sand from inspiring English sources
"Circle, triangle, square". I repeated this to myself while sifting through the sand for stones that fit into this geometric order.
A worker in a protective yellow jumpsuit, who was sifting through the sand with his fingers, picking out marble-size globs, noted that the cleanup was made somewhat easier because the oil was cold and congealed into balls.
Clambering down a grassy crevice over sun-warmed rock pools and on to the beach, Don ducks and begins sifting through the sand to reveal empty razor clams, queeniescallop shells and shiny scraps of mother of pearl.
"Later, I saw a half dozen staff sifting through the sand".
However, while sifting through the sand, you may find some gold flakes.
Downtown, June 9, 8 a.m., texasblueberryfestival.com MATAGORDA Closer Look Adventures in Beachcombing & Riparian Discovery, a day of sifting through the sand-filled environs in Matagorda in the minutest detail, could yield treasures that you can't put a price tag on.
Instead of sifting through the sands for a rare donor and then subjecting a patient to the dangers of a bone marrow transplant, Cannon and her colleague Philip Gregory, chief scientific officer at the Richmond, Calif.-based biotech company Sangamo BioSciences, began to think: They could use gene therapy instead, to tweak a patient's own cells to resistance — and recovery.
His possessions reduced to the luggage he took on the cruise and his car, he was placed by federal officials in a Hampton Inn on Staten Island, and has spent his days visiting the remains of his house to sift through the sand for the rare photograph or recording that might be intact and worth saving.
Local resident Anelda Keet and her family have been out on one of the affected beaches helping sift through the sand.
There aren't any soft, sandy strips to lay down a towel, but beachcombers flock here to sift through the sand for forgotten treasures -- or, in reality, discarded scraps of old glass.
They sifted through the sand for scraps of valuable lead to sell, even carrying sacks of contaminated sand into their homes.
