sandy

• “Compton rode near the back of the leaders over the opening circuit and when Bruno-Roy touched down in sandy, loose dirt in the 120-degree corner at the bottom of the course, Compton seized the opportunity and jumped on the ensuing climb.”

  Katie Compton commands in Covington

• “Anyone who unduly trusts the solid look of the basalt cobbles and wishes to go elsewhere will immediately be mired in sandy excavations, amid the blank walls of apartment buildings, under windows drawn in chalk directly onto the plaster.”

  Translated Texts

• “However, some municipalities are putting in sandy beaches for swimmers.”

  Fishing

• “The next time I bought one from the gardening shop and it thrives just great in sandy ground!”

  Bibimbap! « Were rabbits

• “Field boundaries scratched into the soil are an especially elusive nonnarrative way of remembering shared experience, and their impermanence and vulnerability to covert adjustment (especially in sandy soils) render them not only highly unstable as memories but also readily available as weapons of social exclusion in times of shortage or distress.”

  Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique

• “Three hundred thousand corpses in sandy mass graves cry out that the war was just.”

  Tragedy of Tony Blair

• “There is evidence that some landslides, particularly those in sandy soils common in the”

  The Liquid Earth

• “To grow your own, stake branches of about 40 centimeters in sandy soil with good drainage, and water regularly.”

  Chaya, the Maya miracle plant

• “After they are transplanted, we are told that "the soil best adapted to the growth of tobacco is a light, friable one, or what is commonly called a sandy loam; not too flat, but rolling, undulating land.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860

• “-- The soil is what is usually called a sandy loam; it is moderately rich, being well mixed with vegetable matter.”

  The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

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