Each foot of shoreline was under attack; each year the island would grow smaller as its bor- rowed sand slipped back into the bay.

The sand was slipping under her feet An unwary step could plunge her into the holes and dips.

He tried to run, but the sand slipped under his feet, and he felt as if he were swimming in dust.

"The sand slips right through it, and it's water-resistant."

Huge granite rocks fall into the translucent sea, palm trees quiver at the water's edge and the sand slips through your toes.

The soft white sand slips as quickly through our fingers as those childhood years in which happiness is sealed with a toy plane and a caramel fudge ice-cream.

Every time I start to get close to something tangible, someone I can put my hands on, the sand slips through my fingers.

In the same instant, the sand all around Odrade and Sheeana slipped forward into the fissure, dragging both of them with it.

Jealously, bit by bit, he let the black sand slip away.

The sand in the air slipped, fell back, splashed in the waters and thudded in little heaps on to roads and houses.