Sentence examples for under sand from inspiring English sources

Volatile flash floods can last for days, drowning paddy and burying fields under sand and stones.

"Those things, once buried under sand — they could be uncovered in, like, two million years.

Brighton Beach residents remember a previous Army Corps of Engineers project in which contractors buried the bathrooms under sand.

(Houdini himself tentatively explored stunts: he was buried alive under sand and dug himself out -- but never repeated the experience).

Its biggest monuments endure to this day, while the smaller buildings of the city lie mostly under sand.

The huge rubble piles left behind are now buried under sand, Mr. Lighthall said, and the area is part of the Gateway National Recreation Area.

Now and then one of the sideshows snaps you back to attention: a voyage beneath the desert in a wonderfully strange under-sand submarine, a raunchy three-way sex scene, whatever.

* "UNDER THE SAND," starring Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Nolot and Bruno Cremer.

To put up such a structure, working largely under sand-filled water, costs three to five times what it would on land for perhaps 50 years of life.

A 1998 study by the United States Geological Survey found that overpumping "had caused extensive saltwater intrusion" into the aquifers under Great Neck and cited evidence indicating saltwater intrusion under Sands Point and Port Washington.

Like a bourgeois part of Paris suddenly deserted, disappearing under grit and sand.