Sandy
['sændɪ] or ['sændi]
Definition
(superl.) Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.
(superl.) Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Sabulous.
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Examples
- It was also used in October, 1899, on board the Grande Duchesse to report the international yacht race between the Columbia and the Shamrock at Sandy Hook, as seen in Fig. 13. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Beyond the boundaries of the plantation, George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees; there they made the grave. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- It is no sandy plain, nor any circumscribed and scant oasis I seem to realize. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He was of a sickly color, and his thin, sandy hair seemed to bristle up with the intensity of his emotion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Very far they rode that night, and in the morning he stopped outside the lands of his clan, and dismounted beside a sandy river. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- From Millen to Savannah the country is sandy and poor, and affords but very little forage other than rice straw, which was then growing. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I went down once with my father and two assistants for a little fishing inside Sandy Hook. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain, and prayed for death. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- His features were plain and slight, his hair sandy, his stature insignificant. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The sandy ground, shelving downward from where we sat, was lost mysteriously in the outward layers of the fog. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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