sandpit

[ sand-pit ]

/ ˈsændˌpɪt /

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noun

a deep pit in sandy soil from which sand is excavated.

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Origin of sandpit

First recorded in 1520–30; sand + pit¹

Words nearby sandpit

sandpapery, sand pear, sand perch, sand pile, sandpiper, sandpit, Sandra, sand rat, Sandringham, Sandro, Sandrocottus

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How to use sandpit in a sentence

Can't you preach and pray behind the hedges—or in a sandpit—or a coal-hole—first?
The Life of John Ruskin|W. G. Collingwood
The colour of a sandpit was given him by hair and whiskers of yellow-red on a ruddy face.
The Celt and Saxon, Complete|George Meredith
In a sandpit on the coast of Bering Island, his condition was hopeless.
Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait|Peter Lauridsen
While wading across, I suddenly sank to my waist in a sandpit.
The Journal of a Disappointed Man|Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion

He had killed twenty, and hidden them in a sandpit, when discovered by his master.
Wild Animals I Have Known|Ernest Thompson Seton

British Dictionary definitions for sandpit

sandpit

/ (ˈsændˌpɪt) /

noun

a shallow pit or container holding sand for children to play in

a pit from which sand is extracted

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