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n. (sand dollar English)
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Sand Dollars is a 2014 Dominican drama film directed by Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas. It was selected to be screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was selected as the Dominican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
In 2016 director Laura Amelia Guzmán announced she was working on a sequel called Noelí Overseas.
Usage examples of "sand dollars".
Today she stopped for a minute and rearranged a horseshoe crab and four sand dollars to make an ersatz turtle.
When she was a child, she used to collect shells and sand dollars, but it never occurred to her to collect glass.
Yeah, they sure did, lying motionless on their stomachs, baking under the December sun, their limbs perfect, their brains probably containing about as much as the dead sand dollars.
Thir-ty sev-en thou-sand five hun-dred dollars for a property worth one hun-dred and fif-ty thou-sand dollars.
Three hundred and sev-en-ty thou-sand dollars for a property worth one mil-lion five hun-dred thou-sand dollars.
Now I looked around at the expanse of nipping, sharp sea, the gulls and sandpipers and husks of crabs and sand dollars, and then looked back to the twisted slats of dune fencing and willowy grasses taunting the wind, to the bird sanctuary.
Inside, every flat surface that wasn't designed for people to sit or walk on bore treasures from the sea: twisted driftwood, sand-scoured glass, a crab carapace, bowls of water with shining rocks lining the bottom, fragments of sand dollars and shells, gull feathers.
As if carried by a tide, our mother drifted farther and farther away, first to twin beds and then down the hall to a room decorated with seascapes and baskets of sun-bleached sand dollars.
I picked up sand dollars worn smooth by the surf and beached shells reminiscent of peppermints sucked thin.
Why, Mary, it's for-ty thou- sand dollars--think of it--a whole fortune!
Because I didn't make a deposit of any kind last Friday and certainly not five thou-sand dollars' worth.