sands
Prononciation : [sændz]
Mot
Contexte : « nature »
(noun) a very small, grainy material found on beaches and deserts. It’s what you feel under your feet when you walk on the beach or what you see in an hourglass.
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The children played happily in the soft sands at the beach.
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They didn’t find any sands in the dry area; it was all just rocks.
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What color are the sands on your favorite beach?
Contexte : « time »
(noun) a unit of measurement for time passing, often used when talking about time running out. It can describe the way time goes quickly, like how sand flows in an hourglass.
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As the sands of time trickled down, everyone remembered their happy moments.
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The sands of time did not help him remember the earlier days he wanted to relive.
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Do you think the sands of time are moving too fast for us?
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