Sandlike

Ducks and geese and one toy sailboat skimmed the glassy surface, creating sandlike ripples. ❋ Carole Nelson Douglas (2009)

Unlike old-fashioned drills that cut into teeth, the new "" blasters '' use a tiny stream of sandlike particles to blow away decayed tooth enamel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It just landed with a splonk,embedding itself in the goopy sandlike surface. ❋ Matthew Reilly (2006)

In fact, I see a few remaining promontories, jutting out above the sandlike stuff. ❋ ANDERSON, Poul (1981)

It was red and of a sandlike consistency, apparently rich in iron because it had been formed of decomposed basalt, but lacking in other essentials. ❋ Michener, James (1959)

In some babies a diet containing beef juice or other highly nitrogenous food will produce the reddish cloud, or even actual, red, sandlike particles. ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)

Not the driving, sandlike snow we are used to, but great slushy flakes that run down in water immediately and stream off you. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)

These Master Memories, he said, filtering through the sandlike generations of our race, survive to-day as those pale attenuated affections which we call in ourselves the Love of Nature; these affections are inherited: new feelings for nature we have none. ❋ James Lane Allen (1887)

His mouth and eyes were almost filled with driving sleet; sometimes a 'cloud of light sandlike drift would almost bury him, as it crossed, or followed, or opposed his path; sometimes he would sink to the middle in ❋ William Carleton (1831)

The lower section, about the height of a man, is faced in marine-blue glazed terra cotta, its rich Caribbean blue contrasting with the sandlike beige of the plain concrete walls above. ❋ By CHRISTOPHER GRAY (2011)

Shock wave lithotripsy uses shock waves to break up an impassable kidney stone into smaller, sandlike pieces which can be passed spontaneously, usually within a month. ❋ Kerrai (2010)

For those unfamiliar with scrubs, this is a product that comes in a cream form (like skin lotion) and has grit to it, hard little bits of sandlike rocks that are designed to exfoliate the skin when washed off. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The two machines left a pile of the sandlike material, concrete and rebar waiting to be loaded into containers and hauled to the Environmental Restoration Disposal Facility in central Hanford, a lined landfill for low-level radioactive waste. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The structures covering the basin have been torn down, and the basin filled first with a layer of grout and then a sandlike layer to give heavy equipment a base to work on during demolition. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The ions form sandlike chemical compounds such as calcium carbonate and magnesium hydroxide. ❋ Unknown (2008)