sandbank

noun sand·bank \ ˈsan(d)-ˌbaŋk \

Definition of sandbank

: a large deposit of sand forming a mound, hillside, bar, or shoal

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Examples of sandbank in a Sentence

The ship ran aground on a sandbank.

Recent Examples of sandbank from the Web

Hippos goggled at us from their muddy pools; crocodiles blinked from sandbanks.

— paul theroux, Town & Country, "A Royal Pain," 17 June 2013
Nearby, in Rameswaram, Vinay Nair, 34, an engineer visiting from Bangalore, breathlessly explained how the sandbanks outlined the shape of Rama Setu.

— kai schultz, New York Times, "In India, a Ghost Town and a Mythological Bridge," 3 Oct. 2017
The island would be around two square miles in size and would be located in the Dogger Bank, a windy shallow sandbank around 60 miles off the coast of England.

— david grossman, Popular Mechanics, "The Plan to Build a Wind Farm Island by 2050," 19 May 2017
Huddling in the wind, walled in by desert sandbanks, they have been driven there by war.

— bill neely, NBC News, "ISIS Infiltrates the Rukban Refugee Camp at Jordan-Syria Border," 8 May 2017
Ireland approves the world's largest offshore wind park, 200 turbines on a sandbank 15 miles long and a mile wide.

— peter schwartz and doug randall, WIRED, "How Hydrogen Can Save America," 1 Apr. 2003
Up to 25 percent of the world’s maritime traffic passes through the strait, which often has bad weather, cramped shipping lanes, strong currents, sandbanks and a wide range of tides.

— philippe sotto, The Seattle Times, "Oil tanker collides with cargo ship in Dover Strait off UK," 1 July 2017

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