SANDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sands mean? 

• SANDS (noun)
  The noun SANDS has 1 sense:

1. the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean

  Familiarity information: SANDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

litoral; littoral; littoral zone; sands

Hypernyms ("sands" is a kind of...):

coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore (the shore of a sea or ocean)

 Context examples 

He has walked with me, sometimes, from one end of the sands to the other, without saying a word.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Once the grasses are gone, the sands start moving, their grains carried to new destinations by passing breezes.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

The girl—the same I had seen upon the sands—was near the fire.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Dreaming to leave footprints on the sands of time?”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As he was proceeding along the sands, he struck his foot against something and fell at his length on the ground.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The sight hast been burned from mine eyes by the sands of the Holy Land, and I have had neither crust of bread nor cup of wine these two days past.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You'll find their footmarks all over the Hastings sands, in Kent, and in Sussex.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Researchers say the electrification of Titan’s sands could explain why dunes on the moon, some of which are more than 90 meters tall, form in the opposite direction of the prevailing winds.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)

A buildup of planets in Pisces will coax you to be near water, so book a small hotel in a sunny climate overlooking powdery white sands, turquoise waters, and swaying palm trees.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Here I discern the signs and motions of the heavens and the stars; the laws that control the winds; the number of the sands on the seashore; the healing of the sick; the virtues of all simples, of birds, and of precious stones.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)