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sand dunes

n. (sand dune English)

Usage examples of "sand dunes".

Here is a golf course renowned for the way its holes meander through sand dunes between the ridge and the North Sea, for the way its fairways bleed into the greens, and for the way its ground is a gift that nature bestowed for human recreation.

On the horizon she could make out what appeared to be the northern edge of the lobe of ice, where it gave way again to rising sand dunes.

Shallow sand dunes replaced the glare of gypsum flats, the coast became dotted with palms and here and there a pattern of nets spread out on the shore to dry marked a fishing village.

To the south it grew worse, with miles of pressure-ridge lava, sand dunes, and broken country almost devoid of water.

The rain fell down steadily now on the sodden sand dunes, and dripped off the cottonwood branches onto the quiet form of Mr.

And there is no traveling through sand dunes if you expect to make time.

Brother Mark sat with Cadfael in a hollow of the sand dunes overlooking the open sea, in the clear, almost shadowless light of afternoon.

As soon as he had located the Tower of Buranaccio, just at the back of the beach, its base hidden by the sand dunes and the curvature of the earth, he had ordered all the seamen to be brought up, two at a time, to look at it through the glass and study the coast on either side.

Nothing there but some wind-blown old forest and a temple and sand dunes.

Anyone trying to get there would take the highway to Quirm and, at some unmarked point out in the scrubby landscape, would turn off and strike out towards the sand dunes.