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SANDY
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Irregular inflected forms: sandier , sandiest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas
Example:
arenaceous grasses
Synonyms:
arenaceous; sandlike; sandy
Classified under:
Derivation:
sand (a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral)
sandiness (a texture resembling that of sand)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown
Example:
flaxen locks
Synonyms:
flaxen; sandy
Classified under:
Similar:
blond; blonde; light-haired (being or having light colored skin and hair and usually blue or grey eyes)
Context examples:
As we passed the point the whole cove burst upon our view, a half-moon of white sandy beach upon which broke a huge surf, and which was covered with myriads of seals.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Holmes and I walked along the broad, sandy road inhaling the fresh morning air and rejoicing in the music of the birds and the fresh breath of the spring.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The researchers created filter ‘bricks’ from sandy soil, charcoal, sawdust and iron scraps, and packed these into the barrels with gravel.
(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)
With two suns in its sky, Luke Skywalker's home planet Tatooine in "Star Wars" looks like a parched, sandy desert world.
(Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable, NASA)
Gradually the night fell blacker; it was all I could do to guide myself even roughly towards my destination; the double hill behind me and the Spy-glass on my right hand loomed faint and fainter; the stars were few and pale; and in the low ground where I wandered I kept tripping among bushes and rolling into sandy pits.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
On the other side lay a strip of vineyard, and beyond it the desolate and sandy region of the Landes, all tangled with faded gorse and heath and broom, stretching away in unbroken gloom to the blue hills which lay low upon the furthest sky-line.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having reached the spot marked by a line of light-green rushes, we poled out two canoes through them for some hundreds of yards, and eventually emerged into a placid and shallow stream, running clear and transparent over a sandy bottom.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A pale, taper-faced man with sandy whiskers rose up from a chair by the fire as we entered.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In one place part of the stonework of the graves stretches out over the sandy pathway far below.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
I saw a great yellow face, coarse-grained and greasy, with heavy, double-chin, and two sullen, menacing grey eyes which glared at me from under tufted and sandy brows.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
