From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Geographysandysand‧y /ˈsændi/ adjective1SGcovered with sand, or containing a lot of sand
The soil is quite sandy.2HBHhair that is sandy is a yellowish-brown colour —sandiness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpussandy• a sandybeach• Lagoons, creeks, islands, coves and desertedsandy beaches abound.• I drink at it; but while I think I see the sandybottom and detect how shallow it is.• High rockycliffspitted with little sandy coves melt away into long stretches of silvery beach.• I cut through shallow, sandyhills, but the struggle was anaesthetized by day-dreams.• Finally the seaencroached on this topography producing steep cliffs, inlets, sea stacks and sandy or shingly beach deposits.• Nantucket is a small, barren, sandy place where, Ishmael tells us, they have to plantweeds.• A girlwandered across the sandyridingtrack.• A truck without lights was coming down the sandy road.
