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dune

[ US /ˈdun/ ]
[ UK /djˈuːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a ridge of sand created by the wind; found in deserts or near lakes and oceans

How To Use dune In A Sentence

  • Titan's dunes bend around hills and upland plateaus, revealing how Titan's wind interacts with the topography.
  • It shows fractured blocks of ancient sedimentary rock separated by recent sand dunes.
  • By Otto, February 8, 2010 @ 3: 55 pm try Dunedoo or Wee Waa in NSW, but I suspect the former would be lost on those undeucated in the Australian outdoor toilet. Cheeseburger Gothic » Prepping for Pucka.
  • Carling strained a thigh muscle in Dunedin and Bayfield ended that match on a stretcher with a neck seizure.
  • This half-day guided tour will bring them right onto the golden sand dunes of Arabia in four-wheel drives.
  • Second place went a dune buggy retrofitted by engineers at ElbIt'systems, an Israeli military contractor.
  • In case there is any mistake, Dawkins gives the example of a permanent dune - a barchan - that the wind pushes across the desert but which maintains it shape even while individual grains of sand are being blown into and out of the dune. May 6th, 2009
  • It is the Oporto silene (S. portensis), a curious growth, a lover of the sea-side dunes, which, though of Portuguese origin, as its name would seem to indicate, ventures inland, even as far as my part of the country, where it represents perhaps a survivor of the coastal flora of what was once a More Hunting Wasps
  • Time collapses, and she goes searching along the sand dunes at the wrong time of day. The Times Literary Supplement
  • As he described them to the nomads of the Empty Quarter, they thought of the hard dark dunes found in their own desert called barchan dunes.
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