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sand castle

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

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

“You can see bits of the sand castle crumbling,” said John Delury, an associate professor of international studies at Yonsei University in Seoul.

From Washington Post • Nov. 20, 2018

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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