sandbar
Example Sentences
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Like many in town, Deyres suspects regional fire commanders sacrificed Le Porge to save houses of the wealthy nearby on the Cap Ferret sandbar peninsula: “I’m not afraid to say it: We were abandoned.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 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
"You look out from the hillside and it's like a load of ants crawling out on to the sandbar," he said.
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
It was a rocky sandbar a mile wide at its widest and a little longer than that, fringed all about with shoals and rocks.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
