Numerous attempts to stop the sand drift finally succeeded in the 19th century by planting trees and lyme grass.
It careened off of a rock and spun to a stop in a sand drift.
He sat down in a sand drift and machinelike.
The settlement has been destroyed on multiple occasions by storm surges or was buried by sand drift.
This is the result of huge sand drift in the 15th to 19th centuries which covered much formerly fertile land.
The sand drift affected the whole west coast of Jutland, and some other parts of Denmark as well.
In addition to the constant loss of land, the inhabitants during the Little Ice Age were constrained by sand drift.
This village, like no other on Sylt, had to fight sand drift during the past centuries.
The use led to sand drift and loss of arable land.
"Within a few minutes the outside of the hatch will be sealed by a sand drift," Fletcher said without looking at Conway.