1.   Carrying alluvial sands from the Rocky Mountains, they helped make the plains.

2.   An enormous, curving gash scoured in the solid rock on one side indicated where water carrying sand, pebbles and boulders from the heights above apparently shot down.

3.   Compounding the problem of natural, episodic erosion is the damming of large inland rivers, now unable to carry sand back to the sea.

4.   Often beaches eroded by storm tides are replenished naturally as gentle waves carry lost sand back to shore.

5.   The flooding river carried enough sand to fill a football stadium to the rim every three hours.

6.   They used to carry sand and gravel for all the construction.

7.   El-Karmi testified that the gang carried the sand out in sacks as they dug and dumped it in eastern Berlin.

8.   Every March and April, the Khamaseen tends to blow across Egypt, carrying desert sand into the cities and towns of the Nile Valley.

9.   Heavy winds carrying the sand blew down advertising billboards at the airport, injuring several airport workers and people en route to the terminals, airport officials said.

10.   On Tuesday, scaffolding encased concrete beams as boys carried sand from excavation sites nearby.