The sand in an hourglass pours at an alarming rate.

At first, the proposal was seen by the Egyptians as old sand poured into a new hourglass.

I looked around, and sand was pouring from a small pocket on the face of the cliff, in a spot where no pocket had been.

It was as if the sand was pouring over his eyelids, so heavy that he could not open his eyes.

The sands of time were already pouring through.

Carol becomes enraged and ends up ripping off Douglas' right arm (though only sand pours out of the wound).

'With all them sands of time pouring through?'

The sand pouring from the past to the future filled the room with a sound like surf, a noise made up of a billion small sounds.

The sand poured smoothly into the river.

An hourglass materialized in his hands and he tipped it over, letting the sands of time pour down inexorably.