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Dig your toes into the white sand at Sandbanks Provincial Park, and don’t miss the towering dunes at Dunes Beach.—Alexandra Emanuelli, Travel + Leisure, 7 Sep. 2025 But this course is revered by golf aficionados for its holes along and over the ocean and its use of the adjacent sandy dunes and craggly cypress pines elsewhere on the property.—Lee Ross, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2025 And just outside of New York City, off Long Island’s south shore, Fire Island National Seashore provides an easy escape to a rare coastal wilderness for undisturbed hikes through dunes and salt marshes.—Jeffrey C. Hallo, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025 The new, fully customizable itinerary showcases equally powerful landscapes, ranging from the sweeping dunes of Sossusvlei to the vast deserts of Damaraland to the rugged mountains and sprawling plains of Kaokoland.—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for dune
Word History
Etymology
French, from Old French, from Middle Dutch; akin to Old English dūn down — more at down
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