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SANDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean
Synonyms:
litoral; littoral; littoral zone; sands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("sands" is a kind of...):
coast; sea-coast; seacoast; seashore (the shore of a sea or ocean)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb sand
Context examples:
White-crested waves beat madly on the level sands and rushed up the shelving cliffs; others broke over the piers, and with their spume swept the lanthorns of the lighthouses which rise from the end of either pier of Whitby Harbour.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The sands, last on-the-move more than 10,000 years ago, have awakened.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
They went to the sands, to watch the flowing of the tide, which a fine south-easterly breeze was bringing in with all the grandeur which so flat a shore admitted.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Then it seemed as though I were being dragged over rasping sands, white and hot in the sun.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Probably only in an increase, had that been possible, of the romantic feelings of fidelity and friendship with which I walked beside him, over the dark wintry sands towards the old boat; the wind sighing around us even more mournfully, than it had sighed and moaned upon the night when I first darkened Mr. Peggotty's door.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Far down the course of time I can see her still leading the nations, a wayward queen among the peoples, great in war, but greater in peace, quick in thought, deft in action, with her people's will for her sole monarch, from the sands of Calais to the blue seas of the south.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Kalahari, the name conjures an arid, almost lifeless expanse, its red, iron oxide sands stretching to the horizon and beyond.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
The scenes in its neighbourhood, Charmouth, with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet, retired bay, backed by dark cliffs, where fragments of low rock among the sands, make it the happiest spot for watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied contemplation; the woody varieties of the cheerful village of Up Lyme; and, above all, Pinny, with its green chasms between romantic rocks, where the scattered forest trees and orchards of luxuriant growth, declare that many a generation must have passed away since the first partial falling of the cliff prepared the ground for such a state, where a scene so wonderful and so lovely is exhibited, as may more than equal any of the resembling scenes of the far-famed Isle of Wight: these places must be visited, and visited again, to make the worth of Lyme understood.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
The rasping, scorching sands were a man’s hard hands chafing my naked chest.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I met him at a retired part of the sands, which I knew he would cross, and turned back with him, that he might have leisure to speak to me if he really wished.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
