Sentence examples for vast sand from inspiring English sources

Superb tidal sands reach from Logan Rock to Porthcurno and form a vast sand bar that traps and warms seawater in shallow lagoons.

Pausing by a vast sand basin, scarred by the tracks of dare-devil drivers racing their 4x4s into its depths, we set up camp.

TOTTORI prefecture on the Sea of Japan is known for its vast sand dunes and for having the smallest prefectural population in Japan, of which about one in six lives on a farm.

In the Early Jurassic the western interior of North America was covered by a vast sand sea, or erg one of the largest deposits of dune sands in the geologic record.

The gangs hired to trap and kill in Kaziranga are said by forestry staff to camp on the vast sand bars created by the flow of the Brahmaputra river.

The people may look like ants when first glimpsed against the vast sand dunes of an exacting Lean composition, or the icy Russian mountains, or the concrete façade of a dam, but we are soon invited to alight upon individuals, and through the use of simple, visual clues, wonder about them and care about them.

"A South African Childhood" (1954) evokes the sun-drenched Transvaal landscape in lyrical prose; "Pula!" (1979) recounts a visit to Botswana in a narrative that brims with splendid descriptions: the Kalahari desert is a "vast sand-tray" in which thorn trees are "lead toys stuck upright".

Curl up in a chair, in St . Paulor Encinitas or New Rochelle, open a volume of Robert Louis Stevenson, Gabriel Garc M?uez or Isak Dinesen and discover new worlds, full of treasure seekers, smoky Paris cafes and vast sand-swept spaces dotted with scrubby brush under which zebra sleep.

She plays Kath, a young woman obsessed with her sister, who has disappeared, and broods over weird images of her that appear subliminally in the last CCTV images to show her alive, near the vast sands of Morecambe Bay.

Islam was a religion born of the desert - if people do not share food and water, welcoming strangers, there is no way the religion would have survived, spread as it was by caravan merchants from one oasis to another across the region's vast sands.

Its vast sands, rocky mountains, giant worms, and subterranean oceans create a magical feeling that makes the plot even more engaging.