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Sentence Examples His sandy hair was parted neatly to one side, and although he could not be construed as handsome, he wasn't bad to look at. Haloxylon persicum is a stem-succulent xerophytic shrub, which only occurs in non-saline sandy deserts. She was a lively young lady, with a head of sandy blond hair shortly cropped into a bob style. The white mountain avens needs a moist peaty or sandy soil, and must be protected from slugs and snails. Groupers, jacks and barracuda seek refuge in the wrecks, while large marble rays cruise the sandy flats. The katipo spider is a coastal sand dune specialist, and is mostly found on the dunes of warm sandy beaches. There was a low scraping sound as the keel of the vessel started the drag against the sandy bottom. Swing away from the Treasury and the canyon widens somewhat, with a wide sandy bottom between sheer cliffs. Mostly it consists of sandy woodland and pristine marshes, full of red squirrels and sika deer. He was slight with sandy blond hair, wearing a pale blue shirt and khaki slacks. The soil was too sandy to grow food, an urgent need, and poor quality drinking water had to be drained into barrels sunk beneath the ground. His hair is sandy blonde with silver highlights, fading to white naturally. The Pacific silverweed prefers sunny coastal dunes to marsh edges, sandy bluffs, wetland meadows and mudflats. To the north and south, the reef is split by sandy ravines and long swimthroughs leading into cavelets, blind alleys and tiny passages. Suddenly the boy's moppy sandy head appeared and he thrust the window open, looking disgruntled and sleepy eyed. So press your seed into the soil and then sift over them lightly some sandy soil or even just fine sand. These islands are blessed with exotic beauty of turquoise blue waters and sandy beaches. Leave winter behind for warm sandy beaches, coral reefs, and bright turquoise waters filled with colorful fish. They aimed to beach her, but the inrush of water was too great and the tugs had to cast off as she sank to the sandy bottom at 10.30 pm. A variety of materials such as stone, metal, and sandy clays have been used to form the mould in which metal is cast. Show More Sentences It burrows a tunnel far into a sandy bank on the riverside and dwells therein, safe from cold, wind, rain and creatures that would devour it. The natural woodland is based on sandy soil and consists of eucalypt forests dominated by blackbutts and bloodwoods. It is also mercifully free of molehills, which are the scourge of our sandy garden. Ants love sandy soil so if you add plenty of humus, such as compost, you'll end up with dark, moist, friable soil and no ants. The sky was black as night and the waves of flames from the oceans licked at the sandy shores. Civilization rarely penetrates far into the sandy and stony depths of the desert, for there is little to sustain it in the barren reaches. They are short-haired dogs, sandy in colour, which were brought to Australia from South-East Asia between 3000 and 4000 years ago. They haul out on intertidal rocks and ledes, sandy and pebble beaches, sandbars, and sometimes, ice floes. The chatter sounds are generally heard in and around sandy bottom areas such as shoals and beaches. The promenade runs for miles, initially beside elegant shops, trattorias, occasional street fairs selling antiques and then by the sandy beach. Down by the water, kids are playing tag on a long, sandy beach and splashing in the brisk, gin-clear shallows of Redfish Lake. At Turkey Point in the sandy berms out in the salt marsh, large stands of the non-native Teesdalia nudicaulis were noted in bloom. Jersey's benign climate and free-draining sandy soil provide the ideal environment for over 80 species of lavender. Excess applications of soluble nitrogen compounds can also severely injure or kill small trees, particularly on sandy soils. The concrete pipes and collars on the sandy bottom created a tangled mass of intestines that lay unconnected to anything. Asparagus has a high tolerance for conditions such as salt and sandy soil, thus making it a vegetable that is grown all over the world. The plants occurred in mesic wooded habitats as well as rocky sandbars of Halls Creek, and the sandy shore of the Little Miami River. They winter in open, coastal environments, favoring bays and inlets with sandy shores and shellfish beds. The reef peters out in 25m or so on a dark, sandy seabed where there is a healthy scallop bed. The scud are closely related to beach fleas or beach hoppers, which live on just about all sandy ocean shores. Show More Sentences Shorelines may be indicated by pebbly or sandy beaches, mudflats, rocky cliffs, or reefs. The resort has six swimming pools and a long sandy beach, and accommodation is in a self-catering holiday home. Areas of overlying sandy sediments were removed to expose the fossiliferous clay. We drove past brown, sandy hills crowned by patches of cacti with round, thorned leaves. Five of the sites were sandy soils and five were clays or soils high in organic matter. Whether the soil is heavy clay or sandy and very free draining, it can be greatly improved by the addition of bulky organic matter. I slid my boots off of my now callused feet, how many times had I trained barefooted in that sandy arena with Master Lin! Her sandy hair was matted and tangled, but her eyes shone with crystal clear radiance. The region lacks prominent landmarks, and the raised beaches are sandy and subject to wind erosion and sand drift. It was a large, indoor school that sat upon a sandy island surrounded by marshy swampland. Coastal migrants can often be found along tidal creeks, salt marsh edges, and mudflats, rarely on sandy ocean beaches. We drove along a barely made road that petered out into a dirt track scraped out of the red sandy soil. This species lives exclusively in or near sandy soils within coastal dune and scrub communities and maritime chaparral. The vegetation consists of succulent plants, cacti and terrestrial bromeliads, with thorny trees and bushes hitched to a sandy soil. The fishing in turbulent, sandy water usually is best on natural bait fished with a big rig and heavy weight near bottom. The bag snatcher was described as white, in his 30s, with fair, sandy hair. Its white sandy beach, lapped by crystal clear waters and hundreds of types of colourful fish make it ideal for swimming and snorkelling. Barbuda has sandy beaches and a large lagoon and mangrove swamp on its western side. The mangrove swamps, tidal flats and sandy isles around the lake become their home for two full months. Beside the man, demons no longer cavorted cheerfully, in fact, the path was empty bar the sandy grit that scattered its surface. Show More Sentences The youngster let out a yelp and clutched at the crown of his thatch of tangled, sandy hair. They nest gregariously in sandy roadways and trails, bulldozed sandy fields, and sandpits. At first, my attentions were placed on Kevin, who was cute with his sandy brown hair and light brown eyes. A tall guy stood at the front door, his sandy brown hair shining in the light. He was tall and gorgeous, with rumpled sandy brown hair and azure eyes that Audrey could tell broke the hearts of girls everywhere. The boundary line for private properties is usually where the sandy area ends and the vegetation begins. Chelsea quickly ran her fingers through her sandy brown hair and applied a fresh coat of mascara. Rough stubbles of wispy hair were developing on his dimpled chin and his rough curling sandy brown hair was unkempt and tousled wildly. His once dirty blond hair had become a light, sandy brown and his scrawny build had been filled out with muscles. I couldn't tell how tall he was because he was sitting down but he had sandy brown hair and brown eyes. A guy with sandy brown hair was sitting on one of the seats, his foot tapping in an impatient rhythm. I have shoulder length sandy brown hair, blue eyes, am always smiling, and wear western and leather clothing. His short, sandy brown hair was kind of messy and fell to just above his ears. He seemed a few years older than Pavel, had light brown eyes and sandy golden hair, and his cheeks were flushed from the run in the cold air. One of them had golden blond hair and a football player's build, while the second had light, sandy brown hair and blue eyes. At the bottom of the cliff was a sandy beach, waves thundering relentlessly onto the sand. Next day the roads and hollows or low-lying places resembled closely the sandy, pebbly beach on the sea shore. There is also a pleasant resort at Tsilvi, which has a long sandy beach with shallow water, making it ideal for people with young families. Coming back we crossed a vast expanse of low, sandy hummocks covered with sand verbena. He is using computer modeling and mapping to identify the locations of these sandy or shallow soils. Show More Sentences The memory of California is just getting back to me while I walk along the sandy beach, swishing the sand under my shoes. Lazy summer days are made to be spent on the gravel flats and sandy beaches along Northern California's Russian River. If your soil is mostly sandy, the Nitrogen in the fertilizer should leach out fairly quickly with continued watering. The Brazos also has many sand bars and sandy beaches that make for great picnic spots or swim areas. At Arillas, a resort with a sandy beach and watersports, the Christos Apartments offer spacious two-bedroom accommodation sleeping five. Some lawns are planted on shallow, sandy soil and are almost impossible to keep green during these hot August days. The country is blessed with hundreds of miles of sprawling sandy beaches, with fine white sand and clear blue water. The area covers 1,200 hectares of land and consists of flat plains, foothills and a white sandy beach, sloping down towards a crystal blue sea. The river flows out in a lagoon setting and joins the lake just outside a long extended finger of sand, right beside a beautiful sandy beach. Most widespread around the sandhills is scrub, which is a desertlike habitat of sandy mounds with scattered clumps of vegetation. Recent research indicates autotoxic compounds leach faster through sandy soils than heavy-textured soils. Soils in this classification include fine sands, loamy sands and fine sandy loams. Here too is the machair, the flat strip of sandy grass-grown land close to the shore. On their lee sides some pans have clay dunes or lunettes composed of sandy, silty, clayey, and salty materials blown out from the pan floor. The islands of the Maldives are grouped in ring-shaped coral atolls, each enclosing a relatively shallow lagoon with a flat sandy bottom. The long sandy beaches of Spain's north coast are lashed by Atlantic surf and hemmed by rolling green hills. Only sandy soils that are low in organic matter are likely to need added sulfur. Heather holds sandy moraines together, its pink and white bells shivering in a breath of breeze. His sandy hair was swept back, typical guy style hair, probably loaded with hair mousse. South of the border, though, the realism is as gritty as a towel rub-down with sandy suntan lotion. Show More Sentences Green stream grass and arum tree roots covered the sides of the stream, which varied in width from 1-10m, with a soft, sandy bottom. She likes the idea of lying on a sandy beach, sipping long drinks, and having her nails. On this day there were tiny little rippling waves breaking on the sandy beach, but Rita told me that on occasion it could become very rough. Most need full sun and fertile, well-drained sandy loam with a neutral pH and abundant organic matter. But for farmers intending to grow soyabeans, it advisable to grow the crop on clay loam and sandy loam, which are the best soils for the plant. The soil of all stands was a readily erodible silty or sandy loam underlain by a reddish sand and clay. The north side has some very good silty clay loam, while the southwest corner is very sandy. During winter, these birds roost and forage on beaches, dunes, and sandy and muddy flats of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Fresh aqua blue, sandy tan, sea glass green and pale peach are all colors which figure strongly in this scheme. They are interbedded with bioturbated muddy and sandy limestones, quartz-skeletal siltstones and sandstones. The sunlight struck upon my face and my eyes lit upon the white and sandy shores of France. It tolerates salty conditions and actually prefers light, sandy soil, since it needs a supply of air to its roots. They also prefer a light sandy soil and maybe your clay is a bit heavy and wet for them. Mr Gibb said the animal had a sleek, muscular body, smooth fur and was possibly a light sandy colour. On the bright side, clay soils are usually richer in nutrients than sandy soils are. Multiple depressions dotted the surface of the sandy riverbank, as if it had taken on the look of the surface of a golf ball. Nests are usually shallow depressions in a muddy or sandy bottom in which the eggs are deposited. If it's sandy or stiff with clay, dig in humus to improve water retention and aeration. Near Australia, catsharks have been observed inhabiting ledges and caves, seagrass or kelp beds, coastal reefs, and both sandy and rocky bottoms. Peering down through its latticed sides I could just make out the sandy, weedy ocean floor, 20 metres below. Show More Sentences If you have a sandy or clay type soil, amend it with well rotted livestock manure or aged compost. The gentle lap of waves on Sandymount Strand and the long sandy walks on Dollymount Strand are a vital tonic for many of Dublin's citizens. Red rock canyon walls and deep, sandy washes are painted with enough flaming titian reds and glowing ambers to make a painter weep. Arens was in his early forties, sandy haired and had an almost languid grace. The remainder consists of fertile coastal and riverine lowlands, including a narrow sandy and marshy coastal plain. It is encrusted in pink algae and offers a nice contrast to the wreck, which is resting on a sandy bottom. There are beautiful white sandy beaches all over the island and sheltered coves overlooked by pine-covered cliffs. Adjacent to the cove is the wall, which drops to 50m before becoming a sandy slope. Then the big, belching bus turns onto a washboarded, sandy lane and slowly bounces through the tiny village of Ganeshpura. Along the sandy trail echoes of Brits speaking Castilian Spanish and Spaniards speaking the Queen's English could be heard. On the sandy floor a gold spectacled jawfish, affectionately known as Harry, cradled a brood of eggs in his open mouth. On a hunting trip, our Yanomami guides seemed nervous as we reached a sandy area in front of some rocks. He was tall, slightly gangly, with sandy blonde hair that fell into his face, shading his eyes. In a complementary work Karimi showed an elegiac video in which the camera meanders through unpeopled caves and along sandy beaches. The huge jebels rise sheer from the sandy valley floor overshadowing the small but growing settlement of Rum. There are three swimming pools, a 54-meter water slide and a swimming lagoon with a man-made white sandy beach. It's a snug, quiet place with terraced lawns leading down to the Island's best sandy beaches. The ground was sandy gravel and some long heavy open boxes and shelves were placed in the room and against the walls. They like sandy unimproved soil because they don't respond well to manure and fertilisers. More remarkably, fish actually emerge from the ocean, riding high waves onto shore to spawn on the sandy beaches. Show More Sentences Down by the water grew harakeke, and my grandfather planted Jerusalem artichokes in the sandy soil. Some of them had steep, smooth walls that plunged into the sandy bottom, others undulated downwards. The west bank is more sandy and shallow with weed growing, and the opposite bank more rocky and deeper. The buildings are made from a sandy beige stone, doorways are partially blocked with sandbags, windows are ragged blackened holes. Stray ragworm wound their excitable way to land, before diving below the sandy surface in fear of their lives. I also saw a sandy colored cat with long legs and a short tail that I think was a jungle cat. Some live along steep edges of the reef, and others in sandy sheltered lagoons. His sandy brown hair was parted over the right side, and was close trimmed. Soils high in organic matter or clay are more adsorptive than coarse sandy soils. This succession is interpreted as the aggradational deposits of meandering and braided, sandy and pebbly fluvial channels over floodplain muds and silts. He pushed his sandy hair away from the strong features on his face. Most of the wadable flats are near the inlets where it is sandy. The rough grade was thinly plated with permeable sandy loam soils. Back down in the harbour you can hire a boat or catch a water taxi and island hop to the Pakleni Islands, Marinkovac, Vodnjak and St Klement with its sandy beach coves. As the former prime minister sat under unforgiving studio lights jibber-jabbering with Andrew Marr, his interviewer of choice, it looked positively sandy on top. Italy's Adriatic coast is justifiably famous, and Le Marche has almost 200 km of long sandy beaches and coves, with several resorts flying blue flags. The land at Scampston is mainly sandy, so only first wheats are grown. It is a sad and spectral landscape of thin, undulating, sandy soils, pine trees, reeds, broom, sedges and whispering dry grasses, under those endless, two-tone Russian skies. His red eyebrows and sandy whiskers suggest a Scot or Irish background, which carries some particular negative associations for a 19th-century audience. Climb the sandy slope away from the hole, and wriggle through a couple of constrictions into a higher level of the chamber, which may, or may not, be Cotton Chamber. Show More Sentences By the late 1990s the sea level dropped by 16 meters, leaving fishing boats and ships resting on the sandy and salty bottom. Garrett also dragged his feet about whether he would support the sandy aid bill, which he ultimately did. Sweat poured from underneath his helmet and down the thin points of his sandy blond hair. Cho has made the sandy issue the focus of his campaign for the closing weeks. He was followed by another boy, with light, sandy hair and green eyes. In addition to being acid and alkaline, soil can also be sandy or clay. One of the side panels fell off, landing softly on the sandy ground. The lines scratched in the desert, however, are much longer than airplane landing strips, and the soil there is much too sandy and soft to be used by airplanes. Plants that need moist soil will languish in sandy, dry soil, for example. This, combined with nutrients being leached out of the soils by high rainfall, may cause weakness in some plants and nutrient deficiency, particularly in sandy soils. Our road took us along this western side with the sandy belt on our left. With your sandy locks in shapes that no sand would ever dare be molded into, and your lily-white skin, that blinds my eyes with its radiating light. If the pond is located in sandy or gravelly soils or near fractured bedrock, seal the pond with an approved plastic liner or at least 6 inches of compact clay. The upper part is more sandy, containing clean, arkosic, sharp-based sandstones up to 50 cm thick with locally matrix-supported conglomeratic bases. The victim of the first attempted burglary described the intruder as in his mid 30s, with a ruddy complexion, sandy hair, and wearing black gloves and a light shirt. Back on the land, ferret badgers take turns with otters, ground squirrels and crab-eating macaques to stalk out their territory on the numerous white sandy beaches. The Atlantic Ocean has created a sandy plain, known as machair, which blankets the west coast of the whole island chain, providing some very fertile soils. The main lodge stretched above a sandy river bank, shaded by trees where one could look across the river and see Samburu tribesmen and their herds. The islands are ringed by sandy beaches and surrounded by shallow seas. Golden sandy beaches, international restaurants, hip cafes and Greek hospitality inspire many European artists and writers to live here all year round. Show More Sentences Whilst the rugged northern coast absorbs a perennial battering from the sea, the southern shoreline is sheltered and calm, with sandy beaches and natural harbours. Its fine sandy beach runs the length of its 40 km wingspan, and just under a million Germans holiday here every year, so why is it that we Brits haven't even heard of it? His sandy brown hair was fixed with just the right amount of gel. His sandy brown hair was tied back with a small black string. Michelle was a slim girl with green eyes and sandy brown hair. She had very long sandy brown hair that she wore in a French braid. He had light green eyes with sandy golden hair not unlike his own. What the balti house lacks in bikini-clad women, sandy beaches and palm trees, it makes up for with pints of bitter on tap and a large menu of spicy dishes. I followed Sean away from the beach, down the sandy paths where the marram grass gave way to bracken and scrubby trees, deeper and deeper into the dunes. His sandals scuff on the sandy path, as the geckos call goodnight. It is a great sight, with ant-like streams pouring across long pontoons over the river's shallow sandy banks to innumerable craft moored midstream. Her figures now show off curves as well as angles, and include touches of Impressionism as they pose, row boats and toddle babies across sandy beaches. His sandy blonde hair was unruly and uneven from self barbering. Organic matter plays an important complementary role, especially on very sandy soils where it is practically the only medium for nutrient and water storage. Perhaps because of their preference for rocky shores, marine otters have never been found along the sandy beaches of the Atlantic Patagonian coasts. It was dry at low tide and filled quickly as the tide came in, the sides of the bay were stony and the bay itself was sandy with large mussel beds. Also mixed in the melange are sandy limestone and serpentine, as well as sediments that eroded off a precursor of our present Sierra Nevada Range. This year, it was LCD Soundsystem, who performed on the sandy beach behind the Raleigh. It is dominated at the exposure by angular quartzite clasts up to 40 cm long with subordinate, subroundcd sandy dolomite, angular micaceous siltstone and limestone clasts. Scuttling teams hope she will settle upright, as have sister ships Perth in Western Australia and Hobart off South Australia, on the sandy seabed. Show More Sentences With his sandy blonde hair, blue eyes, and lilting Irish tones, Mosse clearly stuck out as a foreigner in the Congo region. Morgan's lips twisted and he tossed his sandy brown hair out of his face. The tear drop that fell to the sandy floor changed as it fell, to a jewel. As the sea level rose in the early to middle Holocene, dunes on the low-gradient shelf were transgressed and provided the core for the modern offshore sandy shoals. Lying alone in a tiny cavern barely large enough to shelter one person, I listen as the wind rustles through the grasses and the rain pelts the sandy soil. They'll settle for shingle banks with light weed growth and this tends to be the type of ground they are feeding over when you're fishing off steep sandy beaches. His eyes were a grayish blue and his hair bright blonde, sandy rather. The road traverses sandy and stony desert and mountainous terrain. The Tunisians are friendly, the beaches soft, sandy and uncrowded, a wide variety of sports and watersports are freely available and the food is good. She hit the sandy ground, and got pulled out with the undertow. With a wistful sigh Bakul picked up his large quakehammer, which had belonged to his father, and began trudging up the sandy slope towards the surface world. Unfortunately, it's common for exhaustion or storms to defeat many birds before they make it home and they can often be found in large numbers on their sandy necropolises. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands. The east coast is more regular, with a series of large estuarine inlets, or firths, and long sandy beaches, for example at Aberdeen. The soils of the studied area are limestone and pebble rendzinas with sandy loam texture. The North Sea coast of England is mainly flat and sandy with many dunes and is similar to coastlines across the sea in the Netherlands. The USS Kittiwake, a 1945-vintage submarine rescue ship, now rests on a sandy bottom off Grand Cayman's Seven Mile Beach. The soil of the study site is Fuller fine sandy loam, a member of the fine loamy siliceous, thermic family of Albic Glossic Natraqualfs. The southeast of the county lies on the sandy soils of the northernmost area of the New Forest. The coast between Cabo Falso Bojador and Cabo Bojador, 10 miles SW, consists of a sandy beach fringed by rocks. Show More Sentences This is in marked contrast to the predominantly sandy sediments of the Table Mountain Group. The coastline of Pembrokeshire has cliffs in places, and numerous bays and sandy beaches. The south coast has many fishing villages and sandy beaches and the eastern part around Llanelli and Burry Port is more industrial. The Kentish Plover called Naqdah locally, breeds on sandy coasts and brackish inland lakes, and is uncommon on fresh water. This region, he reports, is a sandy desert, and the sand there contains a wealth of fine gold dust. The Cte de Jade in Loire-Atlantique is popular with water sports enthusiasts who practice their skills on the region's long sandy beaches. Annual gametogenesis of the Chinese anapella clam Coecella chinensis at an upper intertidal sandy beach on the east coast of Jeju, Korea. Peat moss improves water drainage in clay soil, and peat moss helps lean, sandy soil retain water. Windbreaks are essential, along with a variety of plants which will withstand the constant salt spray, sandy soils and drying wind. In sandy strata, 7 to 9 inches diameter holes are drilled with a percussion type drill rig. There are promenades along both cliff tops with parks at either end and sandy beaches on the coast. The village has a sandy beach, which was awarded the Blue flag rural beach award in 2005, and is on the Anglesey Coastal Path. The sandstone fill is organized into cross-beds and ripple cross-laminae that formed part of downstream accretionary or sandy barforms. Alf re-lays them two by two, first levelling their sandy beds, and I listen to them chinking xylophonically as he locks them into each other. Especially east of the Palace Pier, a flat sandy foreshore is exposed at low tide. The species is mainly found on poorer, sandy soils, rocky outcrops, peat bogs or close to the forest limit. He and the geologist went to explore in the sandy Garcia pastures. The rig builder, toolie, and driller retired to the Colonel's porch to drink. Central heating engineer Dave Morrell reeled in a 26olb bronze whaler last week after casting his line up to 80 yards from a sandy African beach. Innocent, sandy, smiling, smelling of clove cigarettes and beetrooty hamburgers and a faraway sea. Surfaces of these soils are sandy loams with strong change to medium clay subsoils that are extremely sodic in nature. Show More Sentences Or, spend the day in Anegada amid the gorgeous blue waters and sandy beaches of Loblolly Bay. Zostera marina is found on sandy substrates or in estuaries, usually submerged or partially floating. The three general types of shores found in the Gulf of California include rocky shore, sandy beach, and tidal flat. Water drains from surrounding sandy banks into a peaty bowl where it is held by underlying clay, an example of a soligenous mire. Spruce and fir trees predominate in the upper mountains, while pine and larch are found in sandy soil. Wind tunnel test of the influence on the erodibility of loessial sandy loam soils by wind. The delta of the Tumbes river is shallow, and when the tide is low, little sandy keys show up, which get covered by mangrove vegetation. Rosemary, lavenders, senecios and santolinas all thrive on freedraining, sandy soil, but not heavy clay. The last villagers left in the 1970s and todayOs in an unspoilt retreat with sandy beaches and machair I beach dunes covered in flowers. The response of macrofauna communities and shorebirds to macrophyte wrack subsidies on exposed sandy beaches of southern California. They live on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms from the shoreline to beyond the edge of the continental shelf. Where joints are closely spaced, the large crystals in the granite readily disintegrate to form a sandy regolith known locally as growan. The dunlin is highly gregarious in winter, sometimes forming large flocks on coastal mudflats or sandy beaches. This is often necessary when dealing with very sandy soil, or plants that need increased or steady moisture content to flourish. There are some large areas of conifer plantation, mainly Scots Pine, on the infertile sandy areas. He's a skinny kid with sandy hair like mine, only his has no gray and is normally organized into a cowlick that juts over his forehead. Where there are dry sandy soils there are remnants of historic heathlands and ancient semi natural woodlands. They are a commercially important flatfish which lives on the sandy bottoms of the European shelf. The soil is broadly sandy, but there is considerable marshland to the south and east, by the river. Then it was over the massive two-mile bridge to Ile de Re, with its long sandy beaches, maritime pine forests and small villages. Show More Sentences Most of the long coastline is narrow and sandy with unstable dunes, small shifting lagoons and points. It has miles of white sandy beaches, ochre cliffs and more golf courses than you could shake a mashie niblick at. Surrey also contains England's principal concentration of lowland heath, on sandy soils in the west of the county. The terrain consists of a plateau sloping from long sandy bays in the south to rugged cliffs in the north. With its mountainous landscape and numerous sandy beaches, Wales attracts significant tourism. He entered the ramshackle bus, and was driven a long distance through very sandy streets to the hotel on the St. Lawrence. A sizeable portion of Denmark's terrain consists of rolling plains whilst the coastline is sandy, with large dunes in northern Jutland. The back tends to be a greenish to sandy brown, and shows extensive mottling, especially towards the lighter sides and white belly. The coast consists of low sandy strips interspersed with tidewater streams and lagoons. In Africa and the Middle East, many smaller mountain glaciers formed, and the Sahara and other sandy deserts were greatly expanded in extent. The islands are characterised by flat, arable land and sandy coasts, low elevation and a temperate climate. The limestone is topped with sandy soils deposited as ancient beaches over millions of years as global sea levels rose and fell. The area has a sprinkling of bars and local tavernas and a large sandy beach. Training walls are built to constrain a river or creek as it discharges across a sandy coastline. The soils vary from sandy, sandy clay and clay to shallow young soils of mainly murram or gravel. Guernsey, with its sandy beaches, cliff walks, seascapes and offshore islands has been a tourist destination since at least the Victorian days. It is an Old Drift landscape, characterised by the sandy depositions of the Ice Age. Detached breakwaters are shore protection structures, created to build up sandy material in order to accommodate drawdown in storm conditions. The islands are marked by dunes and wide, sandy beaches towards the North Sea and a low, tidal coast towards the Wadden Sea. Snow crabs are caught in traps, from sandy bottoms in depths of one to 470 metres. Show More Sentences The soil generally is a sandy loam or a strong but friable clay, and very fertile. On sandy soils, the thick woodlands turn into savannas where the aforementioned species prevail as well as species like Jacaranda mimosifolia. All the Danish coasts in Kattegat are sandy beaches with no exposed bedrock. Rotifers also are present in the psammon, the sandy habitat along the wet reaches of shorelines. Apart from sandy and stony reefs, extensive cold water coral reefs, mostly of Lophelia, are growing in Skagerrak. Little is known about the effect of addition of subsoil clay to sandy soils on SOC sorption capacity. During the dry season, those rivers are reduced to a series of waterholes and sandy beds. The city has a long, sandy coastline and a marine climate, the latter resulting in chilly summers and mild winters. Other important trees in this zone include hornbeam, winding, maple, ash, alder along creeks, and in sandy soil birch compete with pine. The ridges are made up of brownish sandy sediments, including whole and fragmented marine mollusk shells and rounded caliche pebbles. Visitors travel to St Andrews in great numbers for several courses ranked amongst the finest in the world, as well as for the sandy beaches. The rally is held on narrow, twisty, sandy and bumpy mountainous roads in the north of the island. A ring of dry sand around foot steps seen while walking though wet sandy beach is caused by dilatancy of the wet sand. This type of tourism is growing on islands lacking sandy beaches and dense human populations. The sandy scrublands of central Pakistan are home to Asiatic jackals, striped hyenas, wildcats, and leopards. The area is generally flat and the soils sandy, limiting their ability to retain water and support agriculture. Patch reefs are hilllike reefs that often occur in sandy lagoon areas or on the upper reef slope of gently inclined fringing reefs. The Senegalese landscape consists mainly of the rolling sandy plains of the western Sahel which rise to foothills in the southeast. The compensating factor, of course, is the unusually sandy, quartzose parent material which podzolizes with great ease. The eastern, southern and western coasts of the peninsula are lined with numerous sandy beaches both wide and small, separated by steep cliffs. Find more words! 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