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
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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