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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sandy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sandy beach
▪ Corfu is known for its sandy beaches.
light/sandy (=containing a lot of sand)
▪ Some plants prefer sandy soils.
rocky/sandy shore
sandy (=yellowish-brown)
▪ He wore his long, sandy brown hair in a ponytail.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
beach
▪ You can hear the faint roar of the breakers on its empty sandy beaches.
▪ A frozen daiquiri on a sandy beach sounds considerably more alluring.
▪ She looked down over the little sandy beach.
▪ Lytham St Annes, a short distance to the south, has sandy beaches and several excellent golf courses.
▪ Iowa may not have sandy beaches, but it does have blacktop.
▪ Local Activities: Walks, sailing, wind-surfing, deep-sea fishing, golf, sandy beaches.
▪ It showed an old cottage, with woods behind and a sandy beach in front.
bottom
▪ In other words, they have been trying to scratch themselves on the sandy bottom and get stranded by accident.
▪ I drink at it; but while I think I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
▪ To add to her worries the sandy bottom was thickly covered by myriads of minute creatures in their delicate shells.
▪ He imagined its slow approach, its dumb search along the sandy bottom among seaweed and snails and crabs.
▪ Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes, dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom.
▪ Their parade across the sandy bottom amuses me.
hair
▪ He had sandy hair and glasses and a yellow face.
▪ Hughes, with sandy hair half way down his back, grabs a marker and scribbles the agenda on a whiteboard.
▪ Detective Inspector Clarke had smooth, pink skin, pale eyes and receding sandy hair.
▪ He was an affable boy with sandy hair, a perennially scraped elbow, and an awful home.
▪ A bounce of thick, curly, sandy hair gave him a rather clownish appearance.
▪ She could see the small, sandy hairs in his nostrils.
▪ I glimpsed sandy hair, a white-grey face, glazed open eyes and slack jaw.
shore
▪ The sandy shore has hotel developments at one end.
▪ The 1988 school year began with a sunrise breakfast and sing on the sandy shores of Lake Michigan.
▪ Where fishermen once set out to sea, now travellers stop to soak up the sun which bakes the sandy shores.
▪ Odysseus as usual was on the sandy shore letting his salt tears flow while he gazed at the empty sea.
soil
▪ Early potatoes grow well on light sandy soils which warm quickly in the spring.
▪ We drove through it, got out, and walked in the sandy soil.
▪ Once he saw a glade, a secret place with a floor of pale, sandy soil.
▪ She crawled on the ground in agony, fingers digging into the sandy soil like steel claws.
▪ Recent bootprints were marked in the thin coating of green sandy soil that had been blown by gentle breezes over the buildings.
▪ I dig my heels into the sandy soil of the path.
▪ Anchorage is lower in friable or sandy soils and following rain.
▪ Black cattle, when they were used at all, ploughed light sandy soil.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a sandy beach
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A girl wandered across the sandy riding track.
▪ A truck without lights was coming down the sandy road.
▪ Finally the sea encroached on this topography producing steep cliffs, inlets, sea stacks and sandy or shingly beach deposits.
▪ High rocky cliffs pitted with little sandy coves melt away into long stretches of silvery beach.
▪ I cut through shallow, sandy hills, but the struggle was anaesthetized by day-dreams.
▪ I drink at it; but while I think I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
▪ Lagoons, creeks, islands, coves and deserted sandy beaches abound.
▪ Nantucket is a small, barren, sandy place where, Ishmael tells us, they have to plant weeds.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sandy

Sandy \Sand"y\, a. [Compar. Sandier; superl. Sandiest.] [AS. sandig.]

  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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Sandy

late 15c. as a nickname for Alexander; as the typical name for a Scotsman from 1785, also drawing on the hair-color sense of sandy (adj.). Also Sawney, and with diminutive form Saunder preserved in surnames.

sandy

Old English sandig "of the nature of sand;" see sand (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "of yellowish-red hue" (in reference to hair) is from 1520s.

Wiktionary
sandy

a. 1 cover with sand. 2 sprinkled with sand. 3 Like sand, especially in texture.

WordNet
sandy
  1. adj. composed of or covered with relatively large particles; "granular sugar"; "gritty sand" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy]

  2. (used of soil) loose and large-grained in consistency; "light sandy soil" [syn: friable, light]

  3. of hair color; pale yellowish to yellowish brown; "flaxen locks" [syn: flaxen]

  4. resembling or containing sand; or growing in sandy areas; "arenaceous limestone"; "arenaceous grasses" [syn: arenaceous, sandlike] [ant: argillaceous]

  5. abounding in sand; "Florida's sandy beaches"

  6. [also: sandiest, sandier]

Gazetteer
Sandy, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 5385
Housing Units (2000): 2080
Land area (2000): 2.633439 sq. miles (6.820575 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.633439 sq. miles (6.820575 sq. km)
FIPS code: 65250
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 45.397499 N, 122.266319 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97055
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sandy, OR
Sandy
Sandy, PA -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Pennsylvania
Population (2000): 1687
Housing Units (2000): 687
Land area (2000): 1.401768 sq. miles (3.630563 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.401768 sq. miles (3.630563 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67784
Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42
Location: 41.108633 N, 78.772614 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sandy, PA
Sandy
Sandy, UT -- U.S. city in Utah
Population (2000): 88418
Housing Units (2000): 26579
Land area (2000): 22.325028 sq. miles (57.821555 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.021161 sq. miles (0.054806 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 22.346189 sq. miles (57.876361 sq. km)
FIPS code: 67440
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 40.572415 N, 111.859610 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84070 84093 84094
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Sandy, UT
Sandy
Wikipedia
Sandy

Sandy may refer to:

Sandy (Sandy Salisbury album)

Sandy was originally recorded in 1969 for Gary Usher's Together Records, a venture that was brief enough that the label collapsed before the album (along with several others) could be released.

There are three versions of this on CD, each one featuring different bonus tracks. The original release by Poptones featured just one bonus track, an instrumental version of "Once I Knew a Little Dog". The Japanese version features three bonus tracks. All three tracks are demos, and two of the songs weren't part of the original album. The most recent release, by Rev-Ola, contains 13 bonus tracks.

Sandy (Sandy Denny album)

Sandy is the second solo album by British folk rock musician Sandy Denny. The album was released in 1972 and begun just a fortnight after her UK tour promoting her debut solo album, The North Star Grassman and the Ravens, ended in early November 1971.

Sandy (Sandy Lam album)

"Sandy" is the third album by Sandy Lam, released on CBS/Sony Records in 1987.

Sandy (log canoe)

The ''' Sandy ''' is a Chesapeake Bay log canoe. She measures is a 28'-1" long sailing log canoe with two masts and a racing rig. Log-built, with carvel-fitted rising planks, the boat has a beam of 6'-8". She one of the last 22 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay racing log canoes that carry on a tradition of racing on the Eastern Shore of Maryland that has existed since the 1840s. She is located at Sherwood, Talbot County, Maryland.

She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Sandy (singer)

Sandy Leah Lima (, born January 28, 1983), known mononymously as Sandy, is a Brazilian singer-songwriter, producer and actress. Born and raised in Campinas, she rose to fame in the early 1990s alongside her brother Junior Lima, as a member of pop duo Sandy & Junior. They performed as a duo from 1990 until 2007. Following the disbandment of the duo in December 2007, she released her debut solo studio album, Manuscrito (2010), which spawned two singles: "Pés Cansados" and "Quem Eu Sou". The album was certified platinum by the Associação Brasileira de Produtores de Discos (ABPD), and earned her three nominations at the 16th VMB (MTV Video Music Brazil). She released her second studio album, Sim, in 2013, which spawned the singles "Aquela Dos 30", "Escolho Você", and "Morada". The album reached number nine in Brazil.

Sandy has also transitioned into acting. In 1997 she made her film debut at O Noviço Rebelde, followed by AcQuária (2003), Mato Sem Cachorro (2013) and Quando Eu Era Vivo (2014). Sandy has earned numerous awards and accolades, including six Prêmio Multishow, six Capricho Awards, three Melhores do Ano ( Rede Globo awards), and one Latin Grammy Award nomination. To date, Sandy has sold over 20 million albums. She is also considered one of the most popular celebrities in Brazil by Forbes Magazine.

Sandy (given name)

Sandy is a popular unisex name; the male version can be a diminutive of " Alexander", " Sander", " Alasdair", " Sandipan", " Sanford", or " Santiago," while the female version is a diminutive for " Sandra" or less commonly " Alexandra", Alisande, and " Cassandra". The female name may also be spelled " Sandi" or " Sandie".

Notable people named Sandy include:

Sandy (novel)

Sandy is the third book written by Alice Hegan Rice, and was the second best-selling novel in the United States in 1905. It was originally published in serial form in The Century Magazine from December 1904 through May 1905, and first appeared in novel form in April 1905.

The novel is based on the boyhood stories of S. S. McClure, publisher of McClure's magazine, and his upbringing in Ireland and early struggles in the United States.

Sandy (Grease song)

"Sandy" is a song from the musical Grease. It is sung by Danny Zuko. The song laments about Danny of the T-Birds wishing to see his girlfriend Sandy in the same school, but they didn't get a chance to meet each other, as the T-Birds and Pink Ladies do not know each other despite their relationship.

Sandy (Dion DiMucci song)

Sandy is a song written by Steve Brandt and Dion DiMucci, and recorded by Dion DiMucci in 1963.

A 1973 Svenne & Lotta recording, released as a single in April 1973., and peaked at second position at the Norwegian singles chart.

A 1973 Jan Öjlers recording, Lycka till med nästa kille, charted at Svensktoppen for one week, ending up 10th on 21 October 1973.

Sandy (surname)

Sandy is the surname of:

  • Casey Sandy (born 1984), Canadian gymnast
  • Gary Sandy (born 1945), American actor best known for playing Andy Travis on the sitcom W.K.R.P. in Cincinnati
  • Isabelle Sandy (1884–1975), French poet and writer
  • Jamie Sandy (born 1963), Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s
  • Kurnia Sandy (born 1975), Indonesian retired football goalkeeper
  • Marco Sandy (born 1971), Brazilian former footballer
  • Michael Sandy (1977–2006), African-American targeted for robbery because he was gay; fatally struck by a car while attempting to escape
Sandy (film)

Sandy is a 1918 American silent drama film directed by George Melford and written by Alice Hegan Rice and Edith M. Kennedy. The film stars Jack Pickford, Louise Huff, James Neill, Edythe Chapman, Julia Faye, and George Beranger. The film was released on July 14, 1918, by Paramount Pictures.

Usage examples of "sandy".

A little over a week later, they reached a much bigger canyon, a wide, rugged gorge through whose bottom ran a quiet river, where pine trees and actus coexisted along the sandy banks and birds twittered in hidden crevices among the rocks.

If you are going to go aground, for preference always choose a sandy shoal.

Sandy told me about a doctor down in southern California with an allergy to shellfish who recently died from anaphylaxis.

This had begun ostentatiously as private swimming lessons, all three males being good swimmers, but as the hours passed the two men and one boy arrived each at his own sandy hollow in the rocks to which trickles of women and girls continually passed.

Nearby, grasslands led into a fenced-off area of sandy slopes filled with marri gums, banksia and prickly bark or coastal blackbutt.

The girls stood among the banksia trees admiring the magnificent flowers of the many species that thrive in the sandy plains.

Yes, they were making very good progress through the open banksia forests and they had covered a wide area of coastal, sandy heaths and had the pleasure to see a variety of flowers.

Sandy Rapczewicz had the oven door open and was standing over the turkey with baster in one hand and spoon in the other, looking irresolute.

Across the little sandy square Blanco looked up from the bench with interest.

Captain Bullen fished a handkerchief from his drills, removed his gold-braided cap, and slowly mopped his sandy hair and sweating brow.

Sandy Yell, or Sandy McGinnis, as Doc had learned in eavesdropping upon the conversation with the humpback master mind.

The trader track would fade before long, he recalled, the dyke on his right dwindling, the road itself becoming a sandy swath humped with ant nests, bone-white driftwood and yellow knots of grass, with floods wiping the ruts away every spring.

Such are sandy soils that have been much worn by cropping, and also stiff clays in which the humus has become practically exhausted.

Satsuporo, and saw before me, stretching for I know not how far, rolling, sandy machirs like those of the Outer Hebrides, desert-like and lonely, covered almost altogether with dwarf roses and campanulas, a prairie land on which you can make any tracks you please.

In the case of very light sandy soils, it may perhaps not be advisable to spread out the manure a long time before it is plowed in, since such soils do not possess the power of retaining manuring matters in any marked degree.