How to Use sand dollar in a Sentence

sand dollar

noun
  • Some of the men showed up with gifts for you, including a sand dollar and shots of prune juice.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 19 Sep. 2024
  • At low tide, the pools on Olympic beaches are rife with starfish, sand dollars, and crabs.
    — Sarah Rose, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The beaches, known for their abundance of seashells and sand dollars, are once again filled with treasures.
    — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
  • And for those looking to collect shells, this is the place for rare angel wings, whelks, and sand dollars.
    — Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2026
  • Rocks, sand dollars, coquina mollusks — anything the ocean gave up.
    — CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • And there’s the star cactus, which resembles a green sand dollar with a bright yellow bloom.
    — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Nothing of value, cardboard with pictures and a piece of gum that was as brittle as a sand dollar.
    — Curtis Silver, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • There are wide expansive beaches of pristine white sand dotted with shells and sand dollars.
    — Matt Hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2018
  • There are a bunch of different kinds of poke, a bunch of ahi, some crab poke, salmon poke, even poke with limpets, these little sand dollar things.
    — Megan Spurrell, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Simple treasures like sand dollars, shells, driftwood and bottles (some with notes) are the most common.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 27 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Sunset Beach is a hot spot for collecting shells and is known for having lots of sand dollars that wash up on the shore.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Low tide is the ideal time to discover treasures like sand dollars, conchs, and the elusive junonia.
    — Allison Tibaldi, USA Today, 9 June 2026
  • Serious shellers know to get to the beach early for prime specimens like sand dollars, whelks, and scallops.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Serious shellers know to get to the beach early for prime specimens like sand dollars, whelks, and scallops.
    — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 9 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Gift shops sell furry bison figurines, and sand dollars are etched with bison silhouettes.
    — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • The quilt features classic beach motifs like starfish, sand dollars, and seashells to make your guest bedroom feel like a summer escape.
    — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 June 2026
  • 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
  • The larva of the sand dollar avoids being spotted by splitting itself into two identical clones.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2011
  • Ellie’s tale starts hours earlier, before the attack, when the girls had found a staggering number of sand dollars.
    — Boyce Upholt, Southern Living, 19 Nov. 2025
  • As its name implies, the island is terrific for its shelling; keep an eye out for sand dollars, periwinkles, conch shells, pin shells, whelk, and olive shells.
    — Susan B. Barnes, Southern Living, 9 Apr. 2026
  • 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, 5 June 2022
  • But what makes Folly Beach really special is the abundance of fossils, urchins, sand dollars, and starfish.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 20 June 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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

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