ADJ
fine
The fine sand between my toes felt warm and smooth as I walked along the shore.
coarse | soft | hard | damp, wet | dry | burning, hot | golden, silver, white, yellow
desert
The children built a small castle on the desert sand during their family vacation.
QUANT
grain | patch, strip
SAND + NOUN
beach, dune | pit (also sandpit) | castle (also sandcastle)
PREP
in the ~
We found some shells buried in the sand while walking along the beach.
on the ~
The children built a sandcastle on the sand while their parents watched from under an umbrella.
noun
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.
“We are addicted to sand but don’t know it because we don’t buy it as individuals,” says Aurora Torres, […]
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
One sand was that used in cement testing with white well rounded smooth grains, passing through a 20-mesh sieve and retained on a 30-mesh sieve. The other was ordinary brown building sand, passing 40-mesh and retained on 60-mesh.
Rock that is ground more finely than gravel, but is not as fine as silt (more formally, see grain sizes chart), forming beaches and deserts and also used in construction.
The Canadian tar sands are a promising source of oil.
From east and south the danger was to be expected. Not from the uninhabited northern desert, not from the desolate sands of the unknown west, would it come.
Personal courage.
You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.
He said, “I admire your sand but I believe you will find I am not liable for such claims. Let me say too that your valuation of the horse is high by about two hundred dollars.”
A particle from 62.5 microns to 2 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
adj
Of a light beige colour, like that of typical sand.
verb
To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
To cover with sand.
Sudden stopping, which could be effected easily by sanding the rails and reversing the driving-gear, was dangerous, because the train might telescope and overwhelm the engine.
The golden domes of churches and the freshly sanded paths in the town gardens were a glaring yellow.
To blot ink using sand.
The officer wrote until he had finished, read over to himself what he had written, sanded it, and handed it to Defarge, with the words "In secret."
To engage in a simple, useless activity that anyone would reasonably know how to perform.
"Bishop McKillup lives there. He's got only three wives, and they three all put together don’t know enough to pound sand with a mallet, with a receipt on the handle." For which str
A defining moment; a cutoff point.
To deliberately ignore the reality of a situation; to pretend a problem does not exist.
Now this doubtness is an unhappy state of affairs to the lover of the steam locomotive, but we cannot, like the proverbial ostrich, bury our heads in the sand and refuse to face fa
To put something in an unstable position by failing to give it a secure foundation.
Loveless marriages often end in divorce because they are built on sand.
Something incohesive, flimsy, disconnected or unreliable
If any flaw can be detected in this reasoning, its author will be the first to admit that these Institutes are, from beginning to end, a mere rope of sand; but if no flaw can be de
For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out
Wiktionary“We are addicted to sand but don’t know it because we don’t buy it as individuals,” says Aurora Torres, […]
WiktionaryChina’s hunger for sand is insatiable, its biggest dredging site at Lake Poyang produces 989,000 tonnes per day.
WiktionarySudden stopping, which could be effected easily by sanding the rails and reversing the driving-gear, was dangerous, because the train might telescope and overwhelm the engine.
WiktionaryThe golden domes of churches and the freshly sanded paths in the town gardens were a glaring yellow.
WiktionaryThe officer wrote until he had finished, read over to himself what he had written, sanded it, and handed it to Defarge, with the words "In secret."
Wiktionaryi Register
In some senses, sand is marked as dated, historical, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.