sandbar
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Police and wildlife officials began trying to free the male whale from the shallow sandbar off the beach in Venice on Sunday morning.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2024
He accidentally beached the hull on a sandbar, and this time there was no easy way to free it.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
