The shifting sand would bury boats and nets, and had to be shoveled away, delaying the real work somewhat.
Maybe the sand had buried an outhouse.
The diver's report showed that sand had buried the Good Wind.
Could it be that sand had buried the Good Wind completely, making Ronjan's invention useless?
"Soon enough, the sand will come and bury these men, as it has buried countless caravans and towns."
Dr. Loope, the lead author of the report, said windblown sand alone would probably not have buried any dinosaurs alive.
Upon a knoll which the drifting sand had not yet buried was a thin, wiry covering of grass.
There would be worse things to do than lie beneath the sun and let the sand bury him, the tides wash him.
In the years of war, shifting sands could bury or move mines up to 20 feet deep in sand making recovery near impossible.
Some families moved to Juodkrantė from Karvaičiai when sand buried this site completely in 1797.