• The public face of their San Francisco firm, Venture Frogs, is more Melrose Place than Sand Hill Road.

    FORBES: Tadpoles

  • Avoca is the ideal place to get sand between your toes, surf or simply enjoy walks along the headlands without having to deal with Sydney's mayhem.

    BBC: The top places to escape Australia��s major cities

  • The concept basically states that one cannot act like an ostrich with one's head in the sand while illegal actions are taking place.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The guest rose from his place and removed his dirty, sand-colored jacket.

    NEWYORKER: Heirs

  • The big game may be a day away, but fans will file into the stands this afternoon to watch some of their favorite celebrities compete in a football game taking place on over one million pounds of sand.

    FORBES: DIRECTV's Celebrity Beach Bowl Draws Celebrities and Fans to the Sand

  • The kibbutz, set against the backdrop of the red Edom Mountains and the golden sand dunes of the Jordanian border, is a great place to watch birds migrating to and from Africa by day and gaze at the stars by night.

    BBC: Kick back on a kibbutz

  • This part of Texas is in the core of the Eagle Ford s hale, currently the most profitable oil and gas field in the U.S. The people around here understand that the fracking of this shale, the injection of billions of gallons of sand-and-chemical-laden water, takes place 2 miles beneath the ground.

    FORBES: Energy's Latest Battleground: Fracking For Uranium

  • But despite the sun and sand, he has decided that he's in the wrong place to build a new life.

    NPR: Iraqi Refugees Struggle to Build a Life in the U.S.

  • Outside major cities, one place this equilibrium could be jeopardised is at the massive sand dunes of Arher on the eastern coast.

    BBC: Stepping back in time in Socotra

  • Restoration work, such as reconstructing salt marshes near the island of Burano and sand dunes at Cavallino, and planting eel grass all over the place, is part of the solution.

    ECONOMIST: Flood barriers

  • He has extended the shoppers parking initiative at Ann Place until the new year, and changed the payment system at Sand Street.

    BBC: High rents mean independent shops 'unable to trade'

  • Sabi Sand, which adjoins Kruger National Park, is widely considered to be the best place in Africa for spotting animals.

    BBC: A guide to South African safaris

  • One will take place on Loth Beach on Saturday and recalls games that were played on the sand in the 1800s.

    BBC: Artist 'lectured' sheep on Highland Clearances

  • Paul was calling to check my interest in an assignment: predict the future of customer service in light of Gen Y and social media and then, draw a line in the sand in the form of the date by which this new service model should be in place.

    FORBES: Missing: Gen Y

  • Vegetation edge: place where the vegetation (e.g. grasses, vines) meets the bare sand area of the back beach.

    UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

  • Only one place on Earth holds big, beautiful T. rex-like dinosaurs in relatively soft sand, in a vast, remote landscape that all but insures privacy.

    NEWYORKER: Bones of Contention

  • There are a couple of barges that are starting to work right away, and I can verify this for you, but I believe the first place they're going to start working is somewhere around the Chandeleur Islands because the sand source is close enough where they can get to work right away.

    WHITEHOUSE: Daily Press Briefing

  • Soldini has already earned his place in history, with his own flair and storied past on the waters, sailing along sand with a crew.

    FORBES: Sailing With Maserati and Giovanni Soldini

  • The black sand beach here is slim and runs directly next to the main road so it is not a great place to bring young kids - the beach can disappear entirely at certain points during high tide.

    BBC: Learning to surf in the land of giants

  • The project involved removing the silt and sand with excavators then dumping it out to sea as well as replacing all the chains that were holding buoys in place.

    BBC: St Aubin

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