sandbank

Example Sentences

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On Sunday night, the Castlemore ran aground on a sandbank in the storm and the traffickers on the trawler had to call the Irish coastguard to save them.

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They might even attempt to stop the boat if it became trapped on a sandbank.

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The Chinese coastguard has seized a tiny sandbank in the South China Sea, state media has reported, in an escalation of a regional dispute with the Philippines.

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In a 2019 police interview played to the court he told officers he was trying to reach a sandbank, according to reports by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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The ship which grounded on a sandbank near Sheerness, Kent in World War Two is decaying.

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