1.   Do not try laying dry sand below the floor boards, without first having the floor inspected for strength and suitability.

2.   If you shake a beaker full of dry sand, the particles will settle and the material will become denser.

3.   Wet sand can be moulded, whilst dry sand is much more elusive.

4.   Little grains of dry sand stuck to it, so I brushed them off.

5.   A recent report in The Journal of the American Medical Association made note of a little-known danger associated with digging large holes in dry sand.

6.   I have tried mixing dry sand with the seed and sowing just a small pinch of them by hand, but the seed always come up too thick.

7.   Most of these mummies were ordinary folk, buried in the desert and accidentally preserved by the blistering heat and dry sands.

8.   Now, sweep dry sand into the joints between the bricks.

9.   Sweep dry sand into all the joints to lock the brick into place.