sandy - use in sentences

Preposition: with

  • outcrop: Once inside the reef area the scenery was very different, very sandy with the occasional rocky outcrop.

Preposition: in

  • color: Their coats are sandy in color and short, and their characteristic main is only present in the males.

Modifies a noun

  • beach: Holywell Bay Nr Newquay A large sandy beach with a stream running down the middle.
  • cove: We rested that night in a sandy cove, the boat firmly secured to a rocky outcrop.
  • loam: Sandy loam mixed with road dust makes a fairly good dusting material.
  • silt: Each feature was backfilled with a dark gray sandy silt.
  • soil: Sandy soils with low clay content will be most rapidly affected.
  • bay: In most places these were simply pulled up on shore in the sandy bays for safety.

Modifying Another Word

  • long: Praa Sands Surfing Beach Cornwall Praa Sands is well worth a visit, it possessing a mile long sandy beach.
  • usually: The soils on the Triassic rocks are usually sandy and often pebbly.
  • very: Once inside the reef area the scenery was very different, very sandy with the occasional rocky outcrop.
  • mainly: Shore diving is mainly sandy and the cliff edges are wonderful.
  • quite: As a photographer tho, I noticed that the water was quite sandy.
  • mostly: These mostly sandy deposits were deposited in a shallow sea from about 49 to 42 million years ago.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: The package becomes sandy through the Late Devonian Ordovician.
  • landscape: The further away one had landscaped sandy [ read small gravel!

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