Example Sentences

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They discovered three principal predictors of nematode numbers: soil sandiness, carbon quantity and acidity.

From Nature • Sep. 19, 2019

They had an initial crunch and then a sandiness that marks the best sablés.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2017

Again he was glad of the soil’s sandiness.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 1, 2015

Malachi was very tall, very thin, and very round-shouldered, and the sandiness of his hair also cried aloud for an adjective.

From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry

That hair of hers never could be gray, you know, it's too self-opinionated in its sandiness.

From Vixen, Volume I. by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)