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- noun Plural form of
sandworm .
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Examples
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Alive! sandworms work as well or better than the real thing.
Gulp! Gulping? 2009
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Even now I'm an adult, Herbert's sandworms still move through the deserts of my imagination.
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(The latter are less prominent in Dune, but I regard the sandworms and the semi-religious awe in which the Fremen hold them as fantastic if not magical).
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It is very good to see Arrakis as it was originally – sandworms, Fremen, endless desert – since it has not been this way since Children of Dune.
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Alive! sandworms work as well or better than the real thing.
Gulp! Gulping? 2009
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But how many people can say they were totally screwed to have to buy all of Dune when really all they wanted was the chapter with the sandworms.
Archive 2010-02-01 The Brillig Blogger 2010
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But how many people can say they were totally screwed to have to buy all of Dune when really all they wanted was the chapter with the sandworms.
customer in the middle The Brillig Blogger 2010
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I'll keep this up every Wednesday until I forget, lose interest, realize no one's replying, or until the giant sandworms eat me.
Open Question Wednesday #1 julieandrews 2008
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Am I the only one who thought the giant sandworms were funny?
Weirdly Funny 2010
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This slowed down the story somewhat, despite a really dramatic sequence involving mechanical versions of Dune's sandworms.
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