sand castle

noun

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

Example Sentences

They were building a sand castle.

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

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A recent winter storm destroyed part of the sand dunes in North Wildwood, leaving tiny piles about the size of a child’s sand castle to protect a popular resort town with $2.5 billion worth of private property, and at least that much in government buildings and infrastructure.

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Iran's Nournews, affiliated with a top security body, said the attacks "showed that, contrary to its claims of intelligence-security dominance over the resistance, Israel could not predict their operations, and that its Iron Dome was nothing but a dome of straw above a sand castle".

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

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