sand castle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
Hearst’s mansion is “a sand castle, an implausibility,” she writes.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2021
We passed a little boy and his mom doing a sand castle.
From "We Were Here" by Matt De La Peña
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