sandy

[US]/'sændɪ/
[UK]/'sændi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. covered or consisting of sand; relating to or located in a sandy area

Phrases & Collocations

sandy beach

sandy soil

sandy hair

sandy color

sandy desert

sandy loam

sandy gravel

sandy silt

sandy clay

Example Sentences

a mile off Sandy Hook.

Sandy is a very busy teenager.

My towel’s all sandy!

areas of fertile, sandy ground.

the pounding of the surf on a sandy beach.

pine woods and a fine sandy beach.

the grass was patched with sandy stretches.

catch some rays on a secluded sandy beach.

sandy beaches scattered with driftwood.

waves that washed the sandy shores.

Water filters through the sandy soil and into the well.

The sandy soil that upland lime calcium pledges earth and fluvial two sides reach alluvion, sandy loam 4 kinds big.

sandy plains where fire tends to spread most quickly.

epipsammon Organisms living on the surface of a sandy substratum or on the surface of the sand particles.

"During the football season, Sandy is busier than ever."

The northern abrupt slope of Dongying Sag is the developed area of sandy conglomeratic body.

The beaches, sandy in the western part of the town, are covered only with tufts of halophilous grasses.

Real-world Examples

29. The grand commander demands thousands of sandy sandwiches.

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Is it sandy or is it rocky?

Source: IELTS Speaking Preparation Guide

We have a pleasant sandy beach for swimming.

Source: Cambridge IELTS Listening Actual Test 10 (Overseas Edition)

His sandy brows went up in astonishment.

Source: Gone with the Wind

We get sandy yellow dust in the spring.

Source: American Family Universal Parent-Child English

Until the 1980s Qatar was little more than a sandy backwater.

Source: The Economist - Arts

" Easy, buddy, " the sandy man ordered.

Source: Spider-Man: No Way Home

They survived certainly hurricane sandy they have survived everything.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

Pretty Sandy, not tough sandy. - Okay. Yeah, you can be pretty sandy. Mom can handle that, right?

Source: Our Day Season 2

We've landed on a huge, yellow, sandy beach.

Source: A bet.

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