sand castle

British

noun

a mass of sand moulded into a castle-like shape, esp as made by a child on the seashore

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“There’s something about making a movie,” he says, “that feels like building a sand castle with friends.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2024

“As soon as we started building the sand castle, we knew the tide was going to come in and wash it away.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2023

Another artwork was spotted on a wall outside the former Lowestoft Electrical shop on London Road North, which appears to show a child next to a sand castle.

From BBC • Aug. 8, 2021

In most coastal states, if your sand castle lasts on a beach more than four days, you begin to acquire legally binding rights to the land underneath the castle.

From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2020

And Mom took us down to Ocean City for a day at the beach, where we built a sand castle with Emily and jumped around in the waves.

From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings

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