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# sandpit

«sandpit» in Mova's school dictionary: **a low box or shallow hole filled with sand for children…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a sandpit, sandpits)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sandpit is a low box or shallow hole filled with sand for children to play in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandpit/#m1)

2) In sports, the sand area for landing in the long jump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandpit/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in everyday life and school playgrounds: digging, building sandcastles, playing with buckets. In PE: athletes land in the sandpit in the long jump. Hygiene: wash your hands after playing in the sandpit and cover it so animals do not use it.

### examples

- The little ones are playing in the sandpit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandpit/#x1)
- Cover the sandpit so cats don't get in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandpit/#x2)
- She landed in the sandpit after her long jump. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandpit/#x3)
- We built a castle in the sandpit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandpit/#x4)
- Wash your hands after the sandpit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandpit/#x5)
- Don't throw sand in the sandpit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandpit/#x6)

### note

UK, Australia, NZ word; in the USA and Canada it is a "sandbox". Countable. Compound: sand + pit.

### In the corpora

- [Think of pouring a bucket of water on a sandpit: little channels join into bigger ones and run downhill to one place.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/4/)
- [A square sandpit with a side of 3 metres needs 3 × 4 = 12 metres of fence to go all around it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/218-fence-around-a-square/2/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sandpit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sandpit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.