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n. (plural of sandhill English)
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The Sandhills, often written Sand Hills, is a region of mixed-grass prairie on grass-stabilized sand dunes in north-central Nebraska, covering just over one quarter of the state. The dunes were designated a National Natural Landmark in 1984.
The sandhills are found in Arthur, Blaine, Brown, Cherry, Custer, Garden, Garfield, Grant, Holt, Hooker, Lincoln, Keith, Logan, Loup, McPherson, Morrill, Rock, Sheridan, Thomas, and Wheeler counties.
The Sandhills is a region in the interior of the U.S. states of North Carolina and South Carolina. It is a strip of ancient beach dunes which generally divides the Piedmont from the coastal plain, and is the evidence of a former coastline when the ocean level was higher, or the land lower. The beach deposits were formed principally during the Miocene Epoch, about 20 million years ago. Typical beach fossils are found along the front edges. The coastal plain is terraced from other ocean levels, but none appear to have been so long-lasting, so as to build up dunes of this size.
Sandhills or Sand Hills may refer to:
- Sandhill
Usage examples of "sandhills".
Far away the coast reached out, and melted into the morning, the tussocky sandhills seemed to sink to a level with the beach.
The way home was through a gap in the sandhills, and then along a raised grass road between two dykes.
As they stepped on to the highroad from their plank bridge, and looked round at the endless monotony of levels, the land a little darker than the sky, the sea sounding small beyond the sandhills, his heart filled strong with the sweeping relentlessness of life.
Far and wide the beach, the sandhills with their blue marrain, the shining water, glowed together in immense, unbroken solitude.
And in the evening they sat among the sandhills, looking at the black, heavy sea.
But when the long murmur of the distant ocean fell on their ears, the exhausted men forgot their fatigue, and ran up the sandhills with surprising agility.
Far into the South, hazy with afternoon light, a yellow succession of sandhills stretched away, spouting fire against the blue sky of an elder world, but now dead and barren of herbage.
THE PASSAGE OF THE RHINE Low among the swarthy sandhills behind the Abbey of Laach dropped the round red moon.
RAFI What wine do they grow in the desert of Meccah, or on the sandhills of Medina?
Cattle sometimes grazed through the barren sandhills beyond the barbed wire fences, but there were no neighbors.
Then the spoor led out of the ridges and scrub into another area of low orange-coloured sandhills and Johnny broke into a jog trot.