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
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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.
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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.
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Huddling in the wind, walled in by desert sandbanks, they have been driven there by war.
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Ireland approves the world's largest offshore wind park, 200 turbines on a sandbank 15 miles long and a mile wide.
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First Known Use of sandbank
15th century
SANDBANK Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of sandbank for English Language Learners
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: a raised area of sand in a river, ocean, etc.
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