The reality is those suppliers of sand, stone, concrete and road materials will not get their money.

BBC: Building site

Ms. HARRELL-MILLER: Like breaking stone, like breaking sand.

NPR: Searching for Roots at Genealogy Day Camp

For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives but also in everything that does not live, drawn in sand, stone, and water.

NEWYORKER: Total Recall

Over the stone wall we looked down at the stretch of sand by the lake.

NEWYORKER: History of a Disturbance

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.

ENGADGET: Inhabitat's Week in Green: Eindhoven's Evoluon Center, folding compact cars and the best of 3D printing