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Recent Examples of sandbank
Each year, sandbanks form and disappear, as the main channel carves new paths.
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Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Some Maldivian resorts create artificial islands and sandbanks as a way to expand their space for guests.
—Johanna Read, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
The itinerary includes trekking through forests, with elevation gains of 2,625 feet and crossing multiple rivers, as well as crossing rock scrambles, sandbanks, ladders, and even rope climbs.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2025
At the opposite end of Luzon from the Reyes family, the village of Sula, Vinzons, in the Bicol region sits nestled on a sandbank barely 400 ft. wide separating the Pacific Ocean from tidal mangroves.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025
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Isa Cardona, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
Some Maldivian resorts create artificial islands and sandbanks as a way to expand their space for guests.
—Johanna Read, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
The itinerary includes trekking through forests, with elevation gains of 2,625 feet and crossing multiple rivers, as well as crossing rock scrambles, sandbanks, ladders, and even rope climbs.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2025
At the opposite end of Luzon from the Reyes family, the village of Sula, Vinzons, in the Bicol region sits nestled on a sandbank barely 400 ft. wide separating the Pacific Ocean from tidal mangroves.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbank
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Reale, in recent weeks, has been landlocked, hitting his head on a sandbar in Australia, a wipeout that fractured several vertebrae.—
Laylan Connelly,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
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Reading the water’s depth from its color, Parrish slow-gunned the outboard motor through the sandbars as turtles fled from our bow wave.—
Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
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Crowds and traffic became such an issue that in 2021, the park began requiring weekend visitors during the February Firefall dates to have reservations as a way to limit congestion and prevent crowds from trampling stream banks and parking illegally along Yosemite Valley’s sensitive meadows.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
13 Jan. 2026
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Most notably, watch here as backup center Oso Ighodaro shuts down Jalen Brunson’s final attempt to tie the score, then Grayson Allen deflects his pass, hustles into the backcourt and banks it off Mikal Bridges’ face and out of bounds.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
13 Jan. 2026
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The notion, like the uncouth, wispy-haired towhead himself, was an easy mark for Bennett, who took aim following Greeley’s sermon on the coverage of the New Jersey murder.—
James M. Lundberg,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Mar. 2020
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An outdoorsy, blue-eyed towhead, Jim, was living in the house next door, right on the beach.—
Alison Rose,
Town & Country,
16 Dec. 2012
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“Sandbank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandbank. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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