sandbank

Example Sentences

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“Oh yes, they were the masters of that trade! They’d travel the river and the creeks, set up camp on sandbanks from village to village, harvest all the clams they could find, and move on.”

From Literature

A rusting cargo ship now lies stranded on a sandbank in the blue lagoon, where only a handful of fishing boats float around.

From Barron's

The 344 huts on the sandbank near Christchurch can only be used overnight for part of the year but can sell for hundreds of thousands of pounds.

From BBC

The stricken vessel was later found on a sandbank.

From Barron's

The boat overturned on Wednesday midnight near Jinack village in the North Bank Region and it was later found "grounded on a sandbank", the country's defence ministry said in a statement.

From BBC