French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804 1876)
Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.
Noun
fortitude and determination; "he didn''t have the guts to try it"
Noun
French writer known for works concerning women''s rights and independence (1804-1876)
Noun
a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral
Verb
rub with sandpaper; "sandpaper the wooden surface"
n.
Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not
reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which
are not coherent when wet.
n.
A single particle of such stone.
n.
The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of
time; the term or extent of one's life.
n.
Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia
and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the
tide.
n.
Courage; pluck; grit.
v. t.
To sprinkle or cover with sand.
v. t.
To drive upon the sand.
v. t.
To bury (oysters) beneath drifting sand or mud.
v. t.
To mix with sand for purposes of fraud; as, to sand sugar.
Sand
That finer matter, called sand, is no other than very small pebbles.2.
The sands are numbered that make up my life.4.
Sand
Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet.
Usage Examples
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
I live with one foot in the sand and one in the snow. There's European egocentricity, and the African opposite. I normally say that my African experience has made me a better European.
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
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Other Usage ExamplesYou can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.
The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand.
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.