Meaning of Sands | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A surname
3. sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which
4. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Marquette County, Michigan, United States.
5. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Marquette County, Michigan, United States
6. a unit of time.
   figuratively
7. an expanse of sand, as in a desert or on a sandy seashore.
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out.”

“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.”

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