The winter storm, which unexpectedly missed Washington, sucked sand from the beach and dragged waves high up on the shore.
Five minutes into our first drive, we met two bull elephants cooling themselves in a pit by sucking sand into their trunks and showering it across their bodies.
After running the car and letting it suck in sand we got about half way through a 25 lb bag.
Carrying boughs of flowers, branches of oranges, dead chickens, a cow once, the swirling muddy water would break through the beach with an enormous gasp and suck of sand, swirling out into the turquoise ocean.
They will take these buildings too, rip them to pieces, and suck the sand or mud or rock on which they're built back into the sea again without remorse.
The dredger is like a floating vacuum cleaner, sucking up sand and silt from the river bed to deepen the river channel ready for large ships.
Like that of many other blood sucking insects, sand fly saliva was shown to play roles in vasodilation as well as in inhibiting blood clotting and platelet aggregation [ 22], though the molecules utilized for such tasks may vary between different sand fly genera.
He wanted to let the engine suck in the sand through the intake so it would port it out and then push it out the exhaust so it would port the exhaust manifold.
It read, in part, "Put bluntly: we believe you need to get over here, suck in some sand and sweat a bit in the desert heat while talking to, among others, U.S. soldiers, Iraqi technocrats, Coalition officials, private sector reconstruction contractors, and tribal leaders.
