The word 'sands' is correct and usable in written English
It is the plural form of the noun 'sand', which refers to the finely ground particles of rock and mineral that make up beaches, deserts, and other areas. 'Sands' can be used in a variety of contexts, such as describing a beach, a desert landscape, or the particles themselves. For example: - "The sands of the Sahara stretch as far as the eye can see." - "We walked along the white sands of the beach, enjoying the warm sun and gentle breeze." - "The artist used different shades of sands to create a beautiful landscape painting." - "The wind blew the sands across the dunes, creating ever-changing patterns." - "The children played in the sands, building sandcastles and digging for buried treasure."
"I've been on those sands man and boy … What happened that night was not only awful beyond words – it was absolutely avoidable … Even when the tide hit them, had they had anybody with them, like me, who knows the area, there was still a safe route off the cockle bed … They could have walked to safety".
A strong conventional oil and gas performance across the board and more modest growth in the clean energy and environment and infrastructure markets in the Americas are expected to offset reduced oil sands revenue and softening demand in the mining market, and in Australia more generally.
There were the dancefloors constructed beneath the sands of the Black Sea.
To avoid catastrophic climate change by keeping the global temperature rise below 2C, the fossil fuel industry needs to leave 82% of today's coal reserves in the ground and Canada's tar sands must go almost untouched.
Over the past two years in the US, concerned citizens have been galvanised to march, rally, campaign and get arrested to block the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline – a project to pump a reported 830,000 tonnes of one of the world's dirtiest fossil fuels from Canada to Texas.
"It looks like a stalling mechanism to get large shareholders on board but from a grass roots level commitments to tackling climate change and continuing with tar sands are incompatible".
When the tide sweeps out at Pendine Sands in Carmarthenshire, south-west Wales, it leaves – as long as the wind is helpful – a long stretch of flat sand.
Mattek-Sands faced countrywoman Sloane Stephens twice in her three clay-court events this spring, both times losing in three sets after winning the first set.
On the witness stand, Adelson played down Cheung's connection with Sands Macauu casinos.
He replaces Peter Sands, who has overseen a 30% fall in profits and a $300m fine from US authorities for breaches of money-laundering rules.
Robert Goldstein, Las Vegas Sands' former head of global gambling operations and now Adelson's No 2, told the court the Reuters report and "the other stuff" had prompted them to stop "doing business" with Cheung.
