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
"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
A woman was indeed coming out on the sandbar, slipping and no doubt cursing to herself, for her lips went up and down between her clear, peremptory calls.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
