sandy

«sandy» in Mova's school dictionary: covered with sand or full of sand: «a sandy beach» — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (sandy, sandier, sandiest); proper name (Sandy)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sandy means covered with sand or full of sand: «a sandy beach». tree →

2) Sandy hair is light yellowish-brown, like sand. tree →

3) Sandy is also a name, short for Alexander, Alexandra or Sandra. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons, sandy soil drains water quickly and is different from clay soil. In everyday life children go to sandy beaches and get sandy feet. Phrases: «a sandy beach», «sandy soil», «sandy hair», «sandy feet».

examples

• We built sandcastles on the sandy beach. tree →
• Wipe your sandy feet before you get in the car. tree →
• Carrots grow well in sandy soil. tree →
• The boy had sandy hair and freckles. tree →
• The desert is dry and sandy. tree →
• My towel was all sandy after the trip. tree →
• About mid-day he reached a sandy plain, scorching in the sun. tree →

note

«Sand» + «-y». Comparative: «sandier», «sandiest» (y → i). As a name it takes a capital letter: «Sandy».

In the corpora

• Przewalski's horses are short and stocky, sandy brown, with a stiff mane that stands up like a brush.
• Different chimp groups use different tools, and snow monkeys in Japan copied one young female who washed sandy sweet potatoes.
• In Japan a young female macaque began washing sandy sweet potatoes in water, and the habit spread through her troop by copying.
• Example: a girl in Queensland sits down on a sandy mound for a picnic.
• Imagine a long green ribbon of fields on a huge sandy map: that ribbon is where nearly all Egyptians lived.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sandy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.