Sentence examples for sucking sand from inspiring English sources

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.

Then the team began using specialized dredges to suck sand away from the wreck.

The winter storm, which unexpectedly missed Washington, sucked sand from the beach and dragged waves high up on the shore.

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.

Environmentalists are concerned that dredging will cause historic Savannah buildings along the shore to tumble into the water, suck sand from the shores of Tybee Island and ruin freshwater marshes.

After running the car and letting it suck in sand we got about half way through a 25 lb bag.

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.

He was sitting like this when he saw it, a big green flipper that had washed up and got stuck under one of the boulders with the sand sucking down on it as the water rushed backward and forward.

These parasitic protozoans are usually transmitted between vertebrate hosts by the bite of blood sucking female phlebotomine sand flies.

Species of the genus Leishmania (Kinetoplastida, Trypanosomatidae) are the causative organisms of leishmaniasis or leishmaniosis, 1 and these parasitic unicellular protozoans are usually transmitted between vertebrate hosts by the bite of blood sucking female phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae).