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  • Five of them were armed and wearing sand-coloured clothes, baseball caps and cotton Arab scarves.

    Gaddafi wants truce in Libya, says Zuma, but terms unclear 2011

  • How perplexing it must have been for passengers arriving at Baltimore's train station to see film-maker John Waters – ordained the "Pope of Trash" by William Burroughs – standing there, instantly recognisable with his pencil-thin moustache and pencil-thin frame wearing sunglasses and a sand-coloured silk suit darkened with splashes of rain, as though he had just been caught in a downpour.

    John Waters: 'the key to happiness is a pair of underpants in each of your homes' 2011

  • At others, Ruth Sutcliffe's design covers the floor in a sand-coloured sheet under which characters crawl towards each other: you can see the lumps trying to hump.

    The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review 2012

  • I also had a tin of sand-coloured dye lying around, and I decided to experiment.

    dye trying nathreee 2010

  • She was wearing a startling sand-coloured trouser suit.

    The SAS and the farmers 2011

  • I also had a tin of sand-coloured dye lying around, and I decided to experiment.

    home-made iced-coffee nathreee 2010

  • As for the place itself … it would have high shelves in some kind of sand-coloured wood.

    Eva's Reading Meme 2008

  • On to a sand-coloured floor, browned at the perimeter as if scorched by newly dead fires, strides the god Dionysus divinely embodied by Jotham Annan, in flowing robes and leaf-spiked locks.

    The Bacchae by Euripides – review Clare Brennan 2010

  • A rubble-filled, sand-coloured, dust-clogged compound in Afghanistan's Helmand Province becomes, in DC Moore's sharp The Empire, a version of Britain and a model of all wars.

    Posh; The Empire; Hair 2010

  • His hand closed around her and darted back before the sand-coloured scorpion could bury its barb in his flesh.

    Archive 2007-07-01 cavalaxis 2007

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