sands of time en · NOUN
Meanings
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(literary, plural, plural-only) Time that is considered as a finite commodity that is gradually running out, as the sand in an hourglass.
[…] And, departing, leave behind us / Footprints on the sands of time […]
1838 October, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life. […]”, in Voices of the Night, Cambridge, Mass.: […] John Owen, published 1839, →OCLC, stanza 7, page 7:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| the sands of time | Number=Plur | canonical | lexicographic |
Deriveds
footprints on the sands of time