sandbar
Example Sentences
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Less than a week later, two sisters paddleboarding on the lake found a human jawbone and skeletal remains in a nearby sandbar, according to KTNV-TV.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 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
The two-year-old female calf had been stuck in the tidal lagoon after her pregnant mother was stranded and later died on a sandbar.
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2024
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 seemed strange that people dwelt on so small and forlorn a place, a mere sandbar; maybe they were castaways; but he was too weary to puzzle his head about them then.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
