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sandbank

[sand-bangk] / ˈsændˌbæŋk /
NOUN
sand bar
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NOUN
shoal
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Firefighters are currently dealing with a wildfire at Sandbank Road, Hilltown and at Chimney Rock Mountain, Newcastle.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2026

A number of homes were evacuated on Saturday after the large wildfire broke out on Sandbank Road.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2025

Two previous marriages — to the composer Mimi Sandbank and the pianist Israela Margalit — ended in divorce.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2014

If anything surpasses it, it is Jan van de Cappelle’s marine depicting “Two Smalschips and Other Shipping Off a Sandbank in a Calm,” to use the long-winded title coined by 20th-century catalogers.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2011

We went into Sandbank Bay, and I landed at the village of Domara. 

From Adventures in New Guinea by Chalmers, James




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