sandbar
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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
All of the injuries were from the ferry, which came to rest on a sandbar.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 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
Under the stout, gray cylinder of the water tower on its commanding hill, the sandbar curved out into the sea.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
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