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Synonyms for sand
sænd; Fr. sɑ̃d, sɑ̃sand

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Princeton's WordNet2.7 / 3 votes

  1. sandnoun

    a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral

    Synonyms:
    grit, moxie, gumption, backbone, guts

  2. Sand, George Sand, Amandine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevantnoun

    French writer known for works concerning women's rights and independence (1804-1876)

    Synonyms:
    grit, moxie, gumption, backbone, guts

  3. backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumptionverb

    fortitude and determination

    "he didn't have the guts to try it"

    Synonyms:
    mainstay, good sense, lynchpin, grit, mother wit, spine, gritrock, horse sense, gritstone, spinal column, keystone, common sense, linchpin, back, backbone, gumption, anchor, rachis, moxie, guts, vertebral column, sense

  4. sandpaper, sandverb

    rub with sandpaper

    "sandpaper the wooden surface"

    Synonyms:
    sandpaper

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Dictionary of English Synonymes2.0 / 1 vote

  1. sandnoun

    Synonyms:
    gravel, small pebbles

  2. sandverb

    Synonyms:
    cover or sprinkle with sand

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 1 vote

  1. sandnoun

    Synonyms:
    sandy soil, quicksand, syrtis, arena (Med.)

    Associated words:
    dune, downs, arenicolous, burst, sabulosity (sandiness), psammophilous, ammophilous, medano, eschar, os, kame, arenarious

  2. sandnoun

    Synonyms:
    (Slang) grit, pluck, nerve, courage, fearlessness, audacity, spirit

PPDB, the paraphrase database2.5 / 2 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "sand":

    sable, sands, sandy, sha, arena, sandstorm, sables, ostrich, berm, grit

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How to use sand in a sentence?

  1. Duong Van Ni:

    Since China built hydropower plants, new sand almost never reaches us, if we use up the sand we have here, there will be no more.

  2. Bob Paglia:

    It felt like sand hitting you in the face.

  3. Bob Yahrmarkt:

    Im looking at a sand pile and concrete where the garage was.

  4. Xander Schauffele:

    My mind was telling me to hit a good drive and then use your sand wedge or lob wedge in there and make birdie, to sit there and watch what happened was a bit of a shock, obviously. I really had to try and focus on the task at hand.

  5. Madeleine L'Engle:

    It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.


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