sandbar
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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
The original Terminal Island had been nothing more than a glorified sandbar known as Rattlesnake Island, named for the animals that washed into the harbor during heavy rains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 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
