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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sandcastle
noun
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▪ Bombs falling on cities, houses crumbling like sandcastles.
▪ Children's sandcastles and hearts in love have disintegrated at its edge.
▪ In Blackpool, sandcastles were replaced by sandbags - handed out to hoteliers and shopkeepers on the flooded prom.
▪ The citadel's rough, sheer pale-brown outer walls and ramparts resemble a giant sandcastle built on the edge of the sea.
▪ Will I ever build sandcastles again?
Wiktionary
sandcastle

n. A sculpture made of sand and resembling a miniature castle; typically, but not always, made for fun by a child on a beach.

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Sandcastle (software)

Sandcastle is a documentation generator from Microsoft. It automatically produces MSDN-style code documentation out of reflection information of .NET assemblies and XML documentation comments found in the source code of these assemblies. It can also be used to produce user documentation from Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (MAML) with the same look and feel as reference documentation.

Sandcastle (disambiguation)

A sandcastle is a castle made of sand.

Sandcastle or Sandcastles may also refer to:

  • The Sandcastle (novel), a novel by Iris Murdoch
  • Sandcastle, a sci-fi graphic novel by artist Frederik Peeters, author Pierre Levy, translator Nora Mahony
  • Sandcastle Waterpark, a water park near Pittsburgh
  • Sandcastle Water Park (Blackpool), a water park in Blackpool
  • Sandcastle (software), the Microsoft document generation program
  • Operation Sandcastle, the British disposal of chemical weapons
  • Bernie Robbins Stadium (formerly known as The Sandcastle), a baseball stadium in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Sandcastle (film)

Sandcastle is a 2010 feature film by Singaporean director Boo Junfeng. It was the first Singaporean film to be screened at the International Critics' Week at Cannes Film Festival. It won Best Feature Film and Best Director at the Vietnam International Film Festival.

Usage examples of "sandcastle".

Sandcastle that had won the 2,000 Guineas six weeks earlier and was hot favorite for the King Edward VII Stakes, the top Ascot race for three-year-old colts, due to be run that afternoon.

Sandcastle, who would thereafter always sire perfect foals, and gradually climb back into favor.

Sandcastle had already covered many new mares that year before the deformed foals had been reported.

Sandcastle himself was a rock-solid investment, and that any foals already born perfect would not be carrying any damaging genes.

All things must die, but I will not scatter My poor botched creation like a child kicking over a misbuilt sandcastle.

Sandcastle, loose and excited, had found his way into one of the paths between the larger paddocks and from his bolting speed must have taken the rails to be those of a racecourse.

The photo excursion might have begun with a vision of crumbling sandcastles, but it finished with the certainty of empowerment.

I played by myself, away from the other children, building sandcastles and exploring rock pools.