My grandma boiled it up to get the sand out.
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The six-kilometres finger of sand juts out into the Humber Estuary from the Holderness coast.
The bay sits at the base of a gorse and hawthorn-laden cliff valley, with a half-moon of white sand looking out over the water.
When the sand ran out of the economy, my business dried up in a matter of months, as it did for many others.
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Haeundae Beach in the east of the city is the most popular, with its attractive sweep of soft sand packed out in summer by enthusiastic locals and young international English teachers.
If cleaning sand off a potato was difficult, picking grains out of sand had to be much worse.
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Then it injects oxygenated water down into the sand to dissolve out the uranium.
The balloons are controlled by releasing gas to go down and throwing out sand to go up.
We gobbled some food, tossed our sleeping bags on the sand and passed out to the roar of waves.
Firefighters spread out sand and strap cleats to their boots.
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For a brief second, she imagined her body warmed by the sun and her head pillowed by the sand, while out in the distance he waved to her between surging whitecaps.
Back home now in the beautiful village of Childrey, part of the Lambourn "valley of the racehorse", Fitzgerald bemoans heavy summer rain which last July led to his home being flooded - the sand bags are out again.
Believe it or not, the cleaning must be sufficiently scrupulous so as to ensure that not a single grain of desert sand is transported out of the Middle East, lest it carry bacteria or diseases back to U.S. shores.
Not every kid in the world gets a chance to swim, twirl around the uneven bars, dig a volleyball out of sand or swing a bat.
But no matter how much energy you put into building a sandcastle, it's unlikely to be as impressive as the structures produced by Stone Spray, a solar-powered, robotic 3D printer that can create entire buildings out of sand.
The Second World War is drawing to its exhausted close, but these young Americans still seem to be doing battle with themselves, and, rather than expressing their quandary in song, they carve a woman out of sand on the beach.
There's a much-needed place in this country for golf courses that maybe aren't quite up to snuff, but are cheap, easy and fun to play for everyday Joes who don't fancy having to whale out of sand traps every other hole or being looked at funny when they wear sneakers.
Many MPs want a new Parliamentary Privilege Bill to sort these issues out - to draw clear lines in the sand between the courts and Parliament and set out what the rules should be for the media, too.
But they went out on the sand anyway and began sopping up the oil.
The fabled golden wealth of Timbuktu turned out to be sand and a few windblown mud huts.
The guy just popped up out of the sand, maybe forty yards straight ahead down at the water's edge.
Tiger Woods got him out of a sand trap, noting that he too was motivated by high state taxes when he moved in the 1990s.
"He'd be up from sunup to well after 10, sometimes past midnight out there moving sand, " Creel said of the early construction of the bunker.
Later came intensive memorising of the star-compass, a circle of coral pebbles, each pebble a star, laid out in the sand round a palm-frond boat.
"Take your head out of the sand and face up to reality because it will hit you between the eyes like a steam train if you don't wake up to it, " he said.
The right front portion of the vehicle's frame was now on the ground, so I set my right foot out into the sand to get some footing, in order to pull myself and my left leg free.
Woodland, a Manhattan Project scientist, came up with the idea for bar codes while running his fingers through the sand, trying to figure out how to put a unique code on every item of merchandise that could be easily scanned by a mechanical device.
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Large sections of the beach are cordoned off to protect these eggs, and it seems to me a testament to how much attitudes have changed toward nature and toward Puerto Rico that guests are happy to be woken up at 2 a.m. to huddle bleary-eyed as inch-long reptiles dig their way out of the sand, slowly loping their way into the water and their new life.
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