SANDS

[plural] [noun]There were miles of golden sands (= sand, esp. large flat areas of sand beside the sea).Sands is also used as part of a name of a bank of sand under the sea which you can see when the water is low.the Maplin Sandsthe Goodwin Sands(formal literary) If you say the sands of time are running out, you mean that not much time is left in which to do something.