sandcastle

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Players will be able enjoy co-op play as they design their sandcastle, and watch out for the invading crabs in Crab Battle mode as they storm their sandcastle.

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  1. noun A castlelike structure built of wet sand, as by children at a beach.
  2. noun Something that lacks substance or significance.

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  • We stopped for an hour at a busy restaurant in Ouarzazate, overlooking more sandcastle-shaped buildings, this time of the less impressive variety. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • So there I was, building a sandcastle, and I was digging and I got to a point where it was pretty cool, it was a pretty rad sandcastle and it was getting big, it was tall, well formed, holding up. —  The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • This WiiWare title appeals to the sandcastle-building child in all of us, allowing the player to construct sand castles either at their leisure or under the threat of miniature siege. —  Nintendo Gal RSS Feed
  • "Nature always takes the exception to the rule, undermines the archetype, and reminds us that our ideas about what is natural and what we should do to correct nature's 'imperfections' are as sound as a sandcastle battered by a rising tide," he wrote. —  YubaNet.com
  • "Sandy Beach," a downloadable WiiWare sandcastle-building game for ages 6 and up. —  JSOnline.com
 

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