Examples of 'shifting sand' in a sentence

Meaning of "shifting sand"

shifting sand: A metaphor for a situation or circumstances that are constantly changing or unstable

How to use "shifting sand" in a sentence

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A house built on shifting sand will fall.
It is impossible to build a solid relationship on shifting sand.
Our world is like the shifting sand of a desert.
To strengthen the body and not the mind is to build a temple on shifting sand.
Across the shifting sand.
Fifty thousand square miles of eternally shifting sand.
Anything built on shifting sand will crumble and fall.
Beyond the coral stretches a world of shifting sand.
The same shifting sand.
My concrete foundation is turning to shifting sand.
It is like stepping off shifting sand on to the solid rock.
It acts as a windbreak and helps in stabilizing shifting sand dunes.
Battering surf and shifting sand banks characterize the entire length of the shoreline.
Churu is encircled by large shifting sand dunes.
Prevention of shifting sand dunes is accomplished through plantations of Acacia tortilis near Laxmangarh town.

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I always built alas on weak and shifting sand.
It is the largest inland shifting sand dune system in the Pacific Northwest.
Building castles in the shifting sand.
Shifting sand dunes… and what could be seasonal flows of sand or even liquid meltwater.
There goes a caravan across the shifting sand.
This sea of shifting sand is the Namib Desert, the oldest desert in the world.
Out there on that shifting sand.
Blistering sun, shifting sand dunes, and no water for hundreds of miles.
It helps stabilize shifting sand.
Shifting sand dunes, criss-crossing rivers, lakes and the sea characterize the landscape of the park.
On weak and shifting sand.
The prosecution has built a case out of spite and enmity on shifting sand.
The seeds may be buried by shifting sand after release.
The same limitations render the species susceptible to human disturbances that lead to shifting sand.
A ditch dug in shifting sand.
This was later proven to just be a chance alignment of shifting sand dunes.
You may still see small banks of shifting sand where the hedgerows were removed.
The lives and futures of DACA kids have always stood on shifting sand.
To the west is the only shifting sand dune in Germany.
Hamadas exist in contrast to ergs, which are large areas of shifting sand dunes.
Even today the forest overlays shifting sand dunes up to 30 m in depth.
These figures are unreliable, as mines are displaced by shifting sand dunes.
But it 's not only the shifting sand that 's controlled by the wind.
Is to build a temple on shifting sand.
On weak and shifting sand Nigel, come on, son.
Building dreams on shifting sand.
I dreamed ♪ on weak and shifting sand ♪ I planned ♪ shunned the naked light of day ♪.
I feel like I am living on shifting sand.
In 1996 a wooden structure was built but shifting sand soon rendered its foundations unstable.
Most of the bridge is built on top of a gravel bed, covered by shifting sand.
He observed that the wind drove these shifting sand hills along over time.
Everywhere you look, all you see is shifting sand.
There goes a caravan across the shifting sand And mullah Nasredin.
There are also forested steppes, treeless steppes, semi-arid deserts, and ever shifting sand dunes.
The dangers of shifting sand.

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