Sentences with phrase «small as a grain of sand»

Bladder stones start from tiny crystals that are formed in the urine of a cat that are often as small as grains of sand.

The stones may be as small as a grain of sand or as big as a pea.

They can vary in size from as small as a grain of sand to as large as a chunk of gravel.

Not exact matches

As the ice clusters were ten thousand times smaller than a grain of sand, the researchers couldn't merely watch them melt.

Taken together, they weigh roughly the same as the smallest possible sand grain, one measuring just two - thousandths of an inch across.

But as gravity inevitably compels the grains of sand through the hour glass, these high performance vehicles have improved in small increments, while cars at the budget end of the market have advanced in leaps and bounds.

Taken together, everything that moves across the Internet in a single day weighs roughly the same as the smallest possible sand grain, one measuring just two - thousandths of an inch across.