Sentence examples for strands of sand from inspiring English sources

For the kind of travelers who made their way here, the appeal was great beaches -- long, empty strands of sand that open to warm azure waters full of interesting fish.

The Potting Shed (applecrossgarden.co.uk), a restored walled kitchen garden and restaurant is another popular eating place after you've worked up an appetite hiking across the windswept landscape and beachcombing along the wild, white strands of sand.

While most Florida public beaches are surrounded by sun-baked parking lots, Naples's seven-mile strand of white sand is backed by millionaires' mansions, just yards away through some elegantly arranged sea grape.

Mazzini knew how to find out: he put poppy seeds, strands of hair, and grains of sand into envelopes, sealed the envelopes with wax, and sent them, by post, to himself.

Sola Strand is one of the most famous, with the grand Sola Strand Hotel sited directly on a superb stretch of sand.

Caddisflies build their tubes in the same way as P. californica, but with a much different glue — strands of silk that attach to the bits of sand, tying them all together.

It all started with Paris-Plage, an artificial strand along the Seine complete with 3,000 tons of sand, palm trees and umbrellas, which attracted three million visitors the week it opened in 2002.

One such urban oasis is Plumb Beach, a strand of dunes and sand alongside the auto-clogged Belt Parkway in southern Brooklyn.

For the visitor who arrives clinging to Carl Sandburg's industrial, "hog butcher for the world" vision of Chicago, the strand of lawn and sand and breakwater where it meets Lake Michigan is a wonder.

In addition, the Coastal Plain is marked by lines of sand hills, which are the relics of stranded beaches that eroded as the plains were lifted slowly out of the seas in postglacial times.

In a section called "How to Read a Beach," we learn why sand, for example, accumulates in particular ways, how ripple action turns some flat stretches of sand into corrugations, the way swash and backwash shape the beach slope, how even a few strands of sea oats can trap enough sand to start building a dune and why foam piles up at the high water line.