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

Then the breached sandbar closed and the lagoon started filling up with water, “and all of the sudden there was habitat.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 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 was a rocky sandbar a mile wide at its widest and a little longer than that, fringed all about with shoals and rocks.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin