Sentence examples for wall of sand from inspiring English sources

"Wall of Sand" is of conventional origins.

But alas, it also looks like a wall of sand against an incoming tide.

BORALAPAR, Assam — Jagot Chekanidhara, a 50-year-old local schoolteacher, mounds up a wall of sand.

On February 26th they built a wall of sand and crushed stones to block the gates of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), north of Bangkok.

"China is creating a great wall of sand with dredges and bulldozers," Admiral Harris said in a speech in Canberra, Australia.

The new land is next to some of the most beautiful natural islands in the world, but "in sharp contrast, China is creating a great wall of sand with dredges and bulldozers over the course of months," Harris said.

Admiral Allen on Thursday approved portions of Louisiana's $350 million plan to use walls of sand in an effort to protect vulnerable sections of coastline.

As the Kurds settled into their positions, bulldozers came up to start making walls of sand outside some of the villages — berms against further car bomb attacks.

There are 87 mining dams in Brazil built like the one that failed — enormous reservoirs of mining waste held back by little more than walls of sand and silt.

Old San Juan, almost 500 years later, is still surrounded by ancient walls of sand, gravel and limestone, its streets lined with deep-blue cobblestones used as ballast by Spanish ships.

BANGKOK — Fortified by dikes, runoff channels and walls of sand bags, and with workers digging and dredging around the clock, Bangkok appeared on Monday to have withstood the worst of the slow-motion tsunami that has been bearing down on it in recent days from the flooded north.