sandbar
Example Sentences
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His friend Marco Guerrero, who witnessed the incident from a nearby sandbar, described the scene to Civik as “violent,” with the shark’s tail “whipping” high above the water.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2026
Covering four representative species—the great white, the sandbar, the small-spotted catshark and the spiny dogfish—Daniel C. Abel and Sophie A. Maycock deliver breadth without sacrificing depth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
A festival on a sandbar brought 90 minutes of merriment to hundreds of people in the Isles of Scilly.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 2025
Bar push is caused when deposition on the inside of a bend forms a sandbar, which pushes the curve outward.
From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024
Carefully, we inched the Miss Amanda around the sandbar without beaching her until we were directly above the deep water.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
