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Sandy   /sˈændi/   Listen
adjective
Sandy  adj.  (compar. sandier; superl. sandiest)  
1.
Consisting of, abounding with, or resembling, sand; full of sand; covered or sprinkled with sand; as, a sandy desert, road, or soil.
2.
Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.





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"Sandy" Quotes from Famous Books



... a sandy, angular man; a ring of air holes cut in the crown of his faded felt hat showed a head of hair faded to match the color of his headgear; his greasy overalls were tucked into boots, and a ragged Joseph's ...
— Flowing Gold • Rex Beach
... myself and look around me with some interest on the strange land that I was in. I had crossed a marshy tract full of willows, bulrushes, and odd, outlandish, swampy trees; and had now come out upon the skirts of an open piece of undulating, sandy country, about a mile long, dotted with a few pines, and a great number of contorted trees, not unlike the oak in growth, but pale in the foliage, like willows. On the far side of the open stood one of the hills, with two quaint, craggy peaks, shining ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... as early as 5 in the evening, as we had now the most dangerous stage of the journey before us, and were desirous of passing it before nightfall. The uniformly flat sandy desert in some degree altered in character. Hard gravel rattled under the hoofs of the animals; mounds, and strata of rock alternated with rising ground. Many of the former were projecting from the ground ...
— A Woman's Journey Round the World • Ida Pfeiffer
... boundaries of the plantation George had noticed a dry, sandy knoll, shaded by a few trees; there they made ...
— Pictures and Stories from Uncle Tom's Cabin • Unknown
... Friendlies, to the one-time buccaneer-haunted, far-away Pelews; thence eastward through the white-beached coral atolls of the Carolines and Marshalls, and southwards to the cloud-capped Marquesas and the sandy stretches of the Paumotu—and you will find no handsomer men or more graceful women than the light-skinned ...
— By Reef and Palm • Louis Becke


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