One of his eyes is frozen shut by sand.

Uncovered by shifting sand that in the next hour might just as well have covered it again for all eternity.

The woman's body was discovered partially covered by sand on a beach in Sicily.

The other had a dark, handsome face, seared by wind and sand.

Within 15 minutes of walking we were alone, surrounded by sand and water.

But covered by sand so the walks can't be seen.

The front door stood half open, wedged that way by sand.

The airstrip is now abandoned and its surface partially covered by sand.

With the passage of time, the temples fell into disuse and eventually became covered by sand.

The thing that now revealed itself to him was half covered by loose sand and hard to see.