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Princeton's WordNet

  1. littoral, litoral, littoral zone, sandsnoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. sandsnoun

    sand grains, especially in reference to the contents of an hourglass, from which

  2. sandsnoun

    a unit of time.

    The sands of a lifetime are rapidly running out.

  3. sandsnoun

    a desert

    We were lost in the sands of Arabia.

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  1. sands

    Sands are fine particles of mineral, rock, or organic material, often resulting from the erosion and weathering processes. It is mostly composed of quartz and feldspar and can come in a variety of colors, typically light brown or yellow. Sands are often found in deserts and on beaches and are used in various industries including construction, glass manufacturing, and even in land reclamation projects.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. SANDS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sands is ranked #1944 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Sands surname appeared 18,584 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 6 would have the surname Sands.

    80% or 14,876 total occurrences were White.
    13% or 2,418 total occurrences were Black.
    3.1% or 582 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 348 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.2% or 240 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    0.6% or 121 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sands in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sands in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of sands in a Sentence

  1. Derek Cummings:

    Oil production in Alberta will continue to grow, production may grow at a slightly slower pace ... but we see the oil sands as being resilient.

  2. Cameron Todd:

    We've got a technology that allows you to more efficiently get bitumen out of oil sands, we've got a process that works and ... it means you don't have a problem with sludge that's left over and needs to go to a tailings pond.

  3. David Tulk:

    The wider backdrop of falling oil prices and renewed caution among businesses investing in the oil sands suggests the risk of an extended slowdown heading into Q1 remains significant.

  4. Cameron Todd:

    The mine never gets any bigger, you just fill in one end and dig out the other. You don't have an oil sands area the size of the city of Calgary.

  5. Roger Lin:

    Phillips 66 cannot meet its propane recovery project objectives without switching to a lower quality feedstock, like tar sands, and without other Phillips 66 projects to assist in that overall switch, these are critical project components that the (Environmental Impact Report) should have, but failed to, disclose to the public.

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