The sands of ......... are running out and you'll have to hurry up.

It's no good ......... your head in the sand, you'll have to face the truth in the end.

If you......... your enterprise on sand, it's certain to fail eventually.

They have decided ......... a line in the sand and start all over again.

The sands are ......... and everything is changing in this century.

It runs into millions and millions — almost as many as the ......... of sand you can see on this beach.

Children often go down to the seaside and use their buckets and spades to make sand ......... .

In order to get children to go to sleep, parents sometimes say that the sand ......... will soon come and put sand in their eyes.

For very small children at their nursery school there is often a ......... where they can play.

When there is a danger of flooding, people often pile up sand ......... outside their houses to stop the water coming in.