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Sands

name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A township and unincorporated community therein, in Marquette County, Michigan, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of sand form-of, plural
  2. 2
    the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean wordnet
  3. 3
    sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which
  4. 4
    a unit of time. figuratively

    "The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out."

  5. 5
    an expanse of sand, as in a desert or on a sandy seashore. figuratively

    "We were lost in the sands of Arabia."

Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of sand form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

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