sands

About 4.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun plural of sand
2. noun sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which
3. noun a unit of time.

   The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out.

4. noun an expanse of sand, as in a desert or on a sandy seashore.

   We were lost in the sands of Arabia.

5. verb third-person singular simple present indicative of sand

Similar words

littoral zone littoral litoral sandy bitumen beach sables sable beetle arenas

Often followed by

of and are in to with were at on

Word family

sand sanded sanding