sandbank

as in sandbar

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Recent Examples of sandbank To accommodate this throng of humanity, a temporary city of impossible proportions springs up on the sandbanks, featuring tented accommodations, roadways, power supplies, and medical facilities. Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2024 Since the sixties, Pickford explained, divers had been searching for the wreck off the wrong sandbank. Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024 Strewn across the riverbed, some of the ships still have turrets, command bridges, broken masts and twisted hulls, while others lie mostly submerged under sandbanks. Reuters, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024 The level of Poland’s longest river, the Vistula, has fallen to a record low, leaving sandbanks exposed in Warsaw and water so shallow a moose was filmed walking across it in a section in the countryside. Reuters, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sandbank
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Noun
  • Here in the Barren Isles, Kassim has set up a plastic tarp tent to create a temporary home for his wife and young son on this tiny sandbar surrounded by turquoise waters known as Manandra Island.
    Sira Thierij, NPR, 26 Dec. 2024
  • There is a huge sandbar that guests can walk from the main property to a restaurant.
    Meggen Harris, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Investment bank JPMorgan expects a 75% to 80% drop in imports from there.
    Juliana Liu, CNN Money, 10 May 2025
  • Economists at investment bank Nomura estimate that around 2.2 percent of China’s gross domestic product is directly affected by tariffs.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 9 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 13 May. 2025.

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