How To Use Sand dune In A Sentence

It shows fractured blocks of ancient sedimentary rock separated by recent sand dunes.
This half-day guided tour will bring them right onto the golden sand dunes of Arabia in four-wheel drives.
Time collapses, and she goes searching along the sand dunes at the wrong time of day. The Times Literary Supplement
To one flank rises a sweep of sand dunes that lead off into pristine wilderness. Times, Sunday Times
No 3 on the list is the Viking burial boat discovered sticking out of a sand dune on the island of Sanday in 1991.

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Shot in black-and-white, this is a visually spare film featuring empty landscapes of sand dunes, sand storms, and unco-operative camels.
It tackled steep inclines, rocky surfaces, muddy tracks and sand dunes with aplomb and at no time did I feel it would bog down or fail to scale rocky obstacles.
Much of the region is occupied by sand dunes, with areas of calcrete and silcrete. Great Victoria desert
Its mud-flats, sand dunes and salt marshes attract an array of unusual birds, which accounts for the number of twitchers with binoculars and long-lens cameras on the island.
When they reached the bay they parked behind a sand dune and walked down to the beach. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
The land was mostly flat and featureless; even the most desolate of the southern deserts had some rolling sand dunes and some cacti.
The groundwater comes up to the surface, pools, and ponds, and deposits sulfate-rich sand, which blows away, creating sand dunes.
Across the sand dunes an amphibious assault vehicle spilled a huge bundle of plastic piping called a fascine into a trench to form a temporary bridge, Within seconds Marine M-60 tanks roared past the breach and through a cleared "enemy" minefield. The Eve Of Destruction
Because the fish will be waiting in ambush behind the top of the sand dune watching for baitfish or whatever to be washed into their field of view.
The canal itself was exactly what we had expected, a strip of water flanked on each side by sand dunes, and a stately procession of ships gliding quietly along.
The action of the play takes place in a remote ramshackle beach house built on sand dunes.
The island is approximately 54 km long and 1.2 km wide, with vegetated sand dunes along its length and both wide and narrow beaches around its perimeter.
I recognise that there is a fair bit of information to be absorbed there, but it is quite a lot like wading through sand dunes.
Dinosaur bones are found littering sand dunes and dry lakebeds.
Participants will also visit the adjacent Oceano sand dunes wilderness area.
It has 8,000 kilometres of shores going from sand dunes to volcanic headlands.
But, more to the point, do we really want the old blokes of the future to have cheeks as soft as babies' bottoms; to have foreheads as smooth as velvet and, overall, to appear as rugged as a sand dune?
When I walk through the sand dunes, I think of Vladimir Nabokov, the most famous amateur lepidopterist of the century. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
It has 27 holes that weave through sand dunes and a eucalyptus forest. The Sun
Turn left from the resort for big waves, vast sand dunes and wild sea filled with surfers. The Sun
She believed she would die in the snake-infested sand dunes. She said: "It was hell on earth".
We walked to the furthermost point and then sat on the sand dunes.
By day, we sat watching them train in their helicopters like swarms of wasps in the sand dunes south of the city. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
The katipo spider is a coastal sand dune specialist, and is mostly found on the dunes of warm sandy beaches.
Disrupting the pavement also allows sand dunes to drift into habitable areas.
She believed she would die in the snake-infested sand dunes. She said: "It was hell on earth".
In effect, he cannot tell a sand dune from a sandworm. May 6th, 2009
There is plenty to see hereabouts - a bird-filled lagoon, the Mycenaean Palace of Nestor, and the remarkable sand dunes of Voïdokolia Bay.
The land was mostly flat and featureless; even the most desolate of the southern deserts had some rolling sand dunes and some cacti.
The destruction of the vegetative cover exposes the soil to the desiccative effects of hot, dry wind, resulting in dust storms, the formation of sand dunes, and other forms of severe wind erosion.
And then there are laser beams and death stars and funny looking creatures with beady eyes that hide in sand dunes.
It has 27 holes that weave through sand dunes and a eucalyptus forest. The Sun
He survived the crash by landing in ‘the biggest sand dune in the desert.’
He recently built two crescent-shaped sand dunes on top of the Casa Monte na Comporta. Modern Monte-Silo House in Utah
There were also sand dunes and shingle banks that were later used for building roads in the new town.
Just off the road, the Aztec sandstone outcrops at Redstone Picnic Area are actually petrified sand dunes.
Both apparently got bitten by snakes while fleeing through the sand dunes at Pearly Beach last month, and died.
This half-day guided tour will bring them right onto the golden sand dunes of Arabia in four-wheel drives.
Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.
Unlike many other beaches, Uretiti's sand dunes were largely intact and grasses such as pingao and spinifex grew on the dunes which were ideal for katipo to build insect-snaring webs on.
From the higher seats, visitors can glimpse stunning views of sand dunes and sparkling sea.
The sea may rise or the land may fall; either way the sand dunes will be gone in a short time.
We drove off at high speed, over sand dunes that caused the vehicle to bounce madly up and down. Times, Sunday Times
Shakespeare on a hot skiddoo for the sand dunes, and when it comes to that poetry thing he thinks he can make Hank Longfellow beat it up a tree. Skiddoo!
For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity.
Sand dunes, salt marsh, scrub. A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
By day, we sat watching them train in their helicopters like swarms of wasps in the sand dunes south of the city. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
To one flank rises a sweep of sand dunes that lead off into pristine wilderness. Times, Sunday Times
Sand dunes develop ridges when the wind deposits a chance accumulation of sand grains.
The helicopter was returning from a successful rescue mission off Helvick Head when it hit a sand dune in thick fog.
Stating that the contamination was not an isolated incident, he claimed it was a regular occurrence further east along the beach towards the sand dunes and into the back strand.
I climbed the sand dunes and surveyed the surroundings: green hills behind me, the ocean in front of me, clear blue skies all round.
Down to the coast where the sand dunes were. Times, Sunday Times
He was part of a troop of lightweight Bren gun carriers whose job was to go out ahead of the army to locate the positions of German Panzer tanks hidden in the sand dunes.
It does have sand and sand dunes, but primarily that red, raw earth that we see so often in paintings.
The problem was that the sand dunes feeding the ocean were the same dunes on which buildings now stood.
In addition, the lizards dig large burrows, which undermine sand dunes on the island.
The research about home range choose of the desert great gerbil in south of Zhungur Desert shows the gerbil choose mainly the site between sand dune to built it nest.
The funny climax, shot against the picturesque sand dunes of Dubai, is a mix of madness and mayhem.
Riders maneuver through a wilderness of rough terrain, brilliant sandstone formations, sand dunes, and wildlife.
Unesco Heritage site town called Coro, also home to tiny Sahara sand dunes, three hours away. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Hand in hand we ambled to the furthermost point and then sat on the sand dunes before returning. GOODBYE CURATE
Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.
It is a perennial herb with short rootstocks and stout stems bearing numerous short-peduncled heads in large compact corymb; it multiplies itself abundantly by seeds and is very common on the sand dunes of Holland. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
There were also sand dunes and shingle banks that were later used for building roads in the new town.
For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity.
On shore, 5 m sand dunes and alluvial sands and gravels overlie relatively recent sedimentary, Tertiary clastic and PreCambrian crystalline rocks. Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico
There has been speculation the maverick Republicans use the isolated sand dunes along Ballyhornan beach to test fire guns and explosives.
It was just light enough to see, but not to read, the signs in the sand dunes that warn the unwary beachgoer of snakes.
Without such an effort, attempting to improve the situation is like building a house on a sand dune.
It grows on upper shores or in wet hollows in sand dunes, on the West coasts of Wales and southern England.
Here you will find the Rohet Garh Wilderness Camp , run by Siddharth Singh, which comprises six tents on a sand dune in the Thar Desert.
Ah, the sand dune with a trumpet?
Primrose, sunflowers, sand verbena, and a number of others we cannot yet identify have exploded upon the sand dunes.
There is more to Rajasthan than just its royal splendour or amazing camel rides through never-ending sand dunes.
Sand dunes and higher river terraces were still preserved at that time and supported xerophilous vegetation.
Driven to desperation by lack of water for his men and small flocks of sheep and cattle, Eyre had followed Aboriginal tracks to the foot of the sand dunes, where he noticed damp patches.
The sea may rise or the land may fall; either way the sand dunes will be gone in a short time.
Now it's well established that at the poles they've got lots of solid ice, solid water in other words, but then close by [there are] these sand dunes.
Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.
Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.
Sand dunes, salt marsh and grazing meadows. A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
The reserve comprises two geomorphic units: the Aïr mountains, nine roughly circular rugged massifs rising above a rocky plateau, and the sand dunes and plain of the Ténéré to its east. Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger
For day after day south of Marzuk we saw nothing but stony wastes and sand dunes with never a blade of grass or bush to relieve the aridity.
The work could be viewed both from boats cruising the bay and from a deserted beach lined with sand dunes.
To one flank rises a sweep of sand dunes that lead off into pristine wilderness. Times, Sunday Times
Inland, vintage jeeps and other military vehicles wind their way through the meandering narrow lanes between the lush fields and gentle sand dunes as men and women try to recreate a slice of history.
Sand-covered wooden steps hug a large man-made sand dune buffer, delivering us on to a vast expanse of pale beach.
There's a big pool on a terrace overlooking sand dunes. Times, Sunday Times
Third, the setting is California native coastal sand dune with all its special little plants and animals and birdlife. Julie Brothers: EcoFarm Conference: Sustainable Agriculture, Food, Love and Butterflies
With no collection system, mountains of empty plastic bottles pile up in sand dunes behind its white sand beaches.
Eventually, he reached a beach and dragged himself through sand dunes until he reached a disused campsite.
It is a startlingly brutal place where boiling geysers burst through mountain plains caked in salt, and jagged red rocks give way to massive sand dunes and desolate open salt flats.
The action of the play takes place in a remote ramshackle beach house built on sand dunes.
We see them growing voluntarily in sand dunes and vacant lots, anywhere from two feet to five.
When they reached the bay they parked behind a sand dune and walked down to the beach. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
Lord Howe Island has sedimentary deposits of Pleistocene and Holocene (Recent) age, including cross-bedded calcarenite with intercalated soil horizons, lagoonal deposits, a single sand dune, and alluvium. Lord Howe Island Group, Australia
Sand dunes, including the machair on the Hebrides, some types of lowland lochs, fens, meadows, hedgerows and blanket bogs are all mentioned as habitats needing further protection.
Sand dunes, salt marsh and grazing meadows. A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
To escape from the scorching, sultry summers of Delhi he would take his trainees to the sand dunes of the Yamuna at Okhla, South Delhi.
The group will face eight days of walking across rocky plateaus, sand dunes and salt pans.
The terrain he covers will vary from sand dunes to dried up riverbeds to tarmac roads - but it will always be tough.
We may be just short of catatonic when these several pages of visual oasis emerge from the vast internet sand dunes.
With everything from sweeping sand dunes to craggy volcanic craters, it's undeniably dramatic.
Sand dunes, including the machair on the Hebrides, some types of lowland lochs, fens, meadows, hedgerows and blanket bogs are all mentioned as habitats needing further protection.
They will stop on the highest sand dune to view the sunset, and continue the journey to the Bedouin campsite in the heart of the desert.
They had clambered over a large tract of huge sand dunes littered with tufts of hardy grass, and scattered clumps of cacti, but the sand soon gave way to mountain slopes.
When they reached the bay they parked behind a sand dune and walked down to the beach. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
A mix of habitats, from mixed woods to heath and sand dunes, has been created, and conifers are being removed from another 72 acres to extend the area of heathland.
We had both gotten up early and drove to Jockey's Ridge state park, the largest sand dune on the East Coast.
They had not yet gotten used to flying blacked out over shifting sand dunes and having their attention refocused every time the radar altimeter indicated less than 10 feet above the ground.
The funny climax, shot against the picturesque sand dunes of Dubai, is a mix of madness and mayhem.
In effect, he cannot tell a sand dune from a sandworm. May 6th, 2009
There is another irony about desert sand dunes: They are a product of both aridity and water.
Much of the region consists of undulating plains characterized by low parallel sand dunes underlain by calcrete, with several centers of geologically recent volcanic activity in the Mount Gambier district. Naracoorte woodlands
The only hazard they are likely to encounter is a sand dune.
We stand on a high sand dune and look out at the sea and the imposing gray sky.
The Moray Firth near Inverness is an unlikely location for a "Scottish desert", but that was the local name for Culbin district near the mouth of the Findhorn river before the Forestry Commission planted it with fir trees and stabilized the sand dunes. Weatherwatch: A storm that made a desert on the Moray Firth
It had sand dunes, marram grass and lizards, and a beautiful seashore. Times, Sunday Times
Dr Nigel Harrison wrote in the journal that the man had been bitten by a venomous katipo spider, which live in New Zealand sand dunes and attack only in self-defence. The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines
They are found mainly on beaches, or up on the sand dunes behind them, and they perch on sea walls and piers. Times, Sunday Times
A minibus took us to the beach, where we played in the sand dunes and took part in organised games such as egg throwing. Times, Sunday Times
Sand dunes, salt marsh and grazing meadows. A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
Once you are through the sand dunes, another smaller bay opens out.
She believed she would die in the snake-infested sand dunes. She said: "It was hell on earth".
He survived the crash by landing in ‘the biggest sand dune in the desert.’
Entrants have to create vehicles that propel themselves, steer, navigate and negotiate potholes, ravines, sand dunes and boulders without any human intervention.
The mahoe is ofen planted to stablize sand dunes and, on muddy shores, to trap soil to reinforce the coastline. Chapter 5
Happiness is the establishment on the sand dune castle, on one second brilliance! Next second destruction!
When they reached the bay they parked behind a sand dune and walked down to the beach. A Roomful of Birds - Scottish short stories 1990
On the floor it looks like a sand dune with ridges rising. Times, Sunday Times
The area consists of steep mountains rising to around 1,500 metres with flat valleys, and the area is peppered with sand dunes and dry lakes.
In the end I did find the coralroot orchid and, although their blossoms had gone over, it was interesting to see the reddish stems characteristic of where this orchid grows, on sand dunes. Country diary: Ardersier
We drift around looking the place over for accommodation, eventually selecting a wooden building called Sand Dune Apartments.
The towering ridge of a sand dune in the Arabian Desert points to the afternoon sun.
Because the fish will be waiting in ambush behind the top of the sand dune watching for baitfish or whatever to be washed into their field of view.
Earlier models predicted that crescent-shaped sand dunes called barchan dunes should grow to at least 500 meters long - but many are only 100 meters. Latest Science News Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, Articles and Book Reviews
After a journey of many hours across sand dunes and pock-marked roads, we arrived in the village of Bananey.
The only hazard they are likely to encounter is a sand dune.
Eventually, he reached a beach and dragged himself through sand dunes until he reached a disused campsite.
While monster-hunting on this far-flung island's shores in 1998, I was enthralled to see otters gambolling playfully in the sand dunes.
Right on the beach and by huge sweeping sand dunes, this great hotel has ten rooms and four villas. Times, Sunday Times
In the sand dune areas, precisely where the birthplace of these topographical formations lies, between Coro and La Vela, a clear coastal area of shore grasses and xerophilous bush free of grazing was maintained for more than 20 years. Paraguana xeric scrub
A herd of camels strolls past as we pull up at a sand dune for the second night of desert camping.
The sea may rise or the land may fall; either way the sand dunes will be gone in a short time.
Depending on their location, sagebrush lizards are saxicolous, arboreal, or generalize among different habitat types including sand dunes.
Nothing but vast sand dunes and arid desert far as the eye could see in all directions.
On an exceptionally warm fall day, my wife and I went for a walk at a nature preserve, a mixed area of open sphagnum bogs and glacially derived sand dunes, now overgrown with white pine and hardwoods.
Despite its sand dune habitat and shortage of host support plants, this variety of Clematis shows mechanical characteristics during growth that are closely comparable with those of scandent woody lianas.
It has stunning golden beaches, rolling sand dunes and welcoming shaded woods. The Sun
The action of the play takes place in a remote ramshackle beach house built on sand dunes.
One strategy is to plant vegetable varieties adapted to growing in drought conditions, like tepary beans from the Pimas of central Arizona and Hopi corn developed to grow in sand dunes without irrigation.

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