sand castle
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“He showed her the piece of land and said, ‘I’ll build you a sand castle on this piece of land if you’ll marry me.’”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2022
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
You dig very wet sand and drip it from a bucket or shovel to form whimsical spires — like a sand castle Antoni Gaudí might have built in Barcelona.
From Seattle Times • May 1, 2019
She was helping this little kid build a simple sand castle, fast, between when the waves rolled up the shore.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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