How to Use sand dollar in a Sentence

sand dollar

noun

• At low tide, the pools on Olympic beaches are rife with starfish, sand dollars, and crabs.
  — Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
• Liu and Suki trudged down the sandy bank to the river where a small turtle, the size of a sand dollar, swam close to the shore.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2023
• The sand dollar that washed up on Olga Bay, above, home of a seaplane base.
  — Photographs and Text By Christopher Miller, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2017
• Sea stars are more closely linked with sand dollars and sea urchins.
  — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• Here, from a sand dollar–strewn beach to the conch salad not to be missed, the native islander sounds off on the very best of the Bahamas.
  — Zoe Ruffner, Vogue, 13 Jan. 2018
• Display goods that could have been found on a walk along the beach, like seashells, driftwood, sand dollars, starfish, and sea glass ...
  — Emerson Latham, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Apr. 2023
• And there’s the star cactus, which resembles a green sand dollar with a bright yellow bloom.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• Like Alexandrium, the sand dollar also has a stealth mode, and one that involves virgin birth!
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2011
• At low tide, wander through an array of sea anemones, colorful sea stars, and sand dollars.
  — Libby Leonard, National Geographic, 14 Dec. 2019
• Just like a beach house can easily skew cheesy when it's covered in sand dollars and sea glass, a mountain home can get a little too folksy.
  — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 20 May 2019
• Simple treasures like sand dollars, shells, driftwood and bottles (some with notes) are the most common.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• Most closely related to sea urchins, sea stars (aka starfish), sea lilies, and sand dollars, these bottom-dwellers range from as small as one inch long up to six feet.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 Nov. 2023
• They were surrounded by thousands of tiny sand dollars.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• But what makes Folly Beach really special is the abundance of fossils, urchins, sand dollars, and starfish.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
• Coquina shells, moon snails, sand dollars, wentletraps, and even shark teeth are among the artifacts that are commonly found there.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
• Here’s the place Even though many shells and sand dollars will just break up, collecting is prohibited at many beaches.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2019
• There are wide expansive beaches of pristine white sand dotted with shells and sand dollars.
  — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2018
• The beach leads south for miles to Center Hole, becoming more remote with every step, with tons of sand dollars during minus low tides.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 23 Nov. 2019
• The Bahamas launched the world’s first central-bank digital currency, the sand dollar, in October 2020.
  — Anthony Harrup, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2021
• Hot-glue wooden skewers onto the back of tiny round ornaments resembling seashells and pearls, sand dollars, and starfish covered in green and blue glitter.
  — Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Oct. 2023
• The larva of the sand dollar avoids being spotted by splitting itself into two identical clones.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2011
• This vast sandy beach is ideal for playing volleyball or taking long walks (bring shoes to protect your feet) while spotting sand dollars and nesting crabs.
  — Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 26 Aug. 2023
• Gift shops sell furry bison figurines, and sand dollars are etched with bison silhouettes.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Out farther, closer to the still-receding Pacific, is where there will be whole sand dollars, smooth and unblemished, perfect finds.
  — Emily Brisse, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
• The Second City mainstage now brings you Flexit, a divorce plan for Florida that already has lined up its own currency: sand dollars.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2019
• China is not the first nation to launch a digital currency—the Bahamas sand dollar was introduced six months before the digital RMB.
  — Charlie Campbell, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
• Tigertail, located on Marco Island, is known for its conch shells, sand dollars, and occasional shark teeth.
  — Jp Shaffer, Miami Herald, 29 Mar. 2024
• But starfish—as well as sand dollars and sea anemones—have radial symmetry, with identical segments of their body radiating out from a central point.
  — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 3 Nov. 2023
• In fact, most aquatic invertebrates and all echinoderms (sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and sand dollars) start life as planktonic larvae before growing into the adult form we’re used to seeing.
  — Jennifer Adler, Vox, 7 July 2024
• And Friday morning, Jonathan Anderson’s collection at Loewe was filled with delicate lace, filmy dresses with patterns that hinted at sand dollars and satin ones that were elegant without being prim.
  — Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024