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sands

nounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United States

sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which

noun

  1. 1

    sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which

  2. 2

    figurativea unit of time.

    The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out.

  3. 3

    figurativean expanse of sand, as in a desert or on a sandy seashore.

    We were lost in the sands of Arabia.

    Most of the old fishermen's cottages have been unobtrusively modernised, the harbour is busy with summer yachts, and the sands are superb.

  4. 4

    Also a form of sandplural of sand

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of sandthird-person singular simple present indicative of sand

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).