as in dune
a raised area of sand with a top that is near or just above the surface of the water in an ocean, lake, or river
We walked out onto the sandbar at low tide.
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Recent Examples of sandbar
Rip currents are powerful channels of water flowing quickly away from shore, which occur most often at low spots or breaks in the sandbar and in the vicinity of structures such as jetties and piers.
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Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Just over an hour earlier on the same day, a 45-year-old woman was also swimming near a sandbar at Watersound Beach when a shark bit her around her midsection, pelvis and left arm, according to a Walton County Sheriff's Office press conference.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
McKercher added that the versatile FishPro also can be used for wakeboarding or cruising to a sandbar or waterfront restaurant.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
River shorelines and sandbars pose unseen dangers.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Just over an hour earlier on the same day, a 45-year-old woman was also swimming near a sandbar at Watersound Beach when a shark bit her around her midsection, pelvis and left arm, according to a Walton County Sheriff's Office press conference.
—Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2025
McKercher added that the versatile FishPro also can be used for wakeboarding or cruising to a sandbar or waterfront restaurant.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
River shorelines and sandbars pose unseen dangers.
—Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbar
Noun
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Over thousands of years, northeast trade winds pushed this sand inland, gradually forming the massive dune fields.—
Aaron Randolph,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Nov. 2025
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There are gorgeous swaths of untouched beaches, as well as dune, lagoon, pine flatland, salt.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
1 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The semi went through the guardrail on the left side of the roadway before crashing down a steep embankment, authorities said.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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Under the cover of night, a flotilla of boats, some of them commandeered from local fishermen, tried to cross the Dnipro and land on the embankment near the plant, according to three Ukrainian military officers involved in the planning and execution of the assault.—
Simon Shuster,
Time,
23 Oct. 2025
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Bison roam freely, wild horses graze on ridges, and entire prairie dog towns pop up along the roadside.—
Karthika Gupta,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Nov. 2025
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The strongest wind gusts were reported over coastal ridges in excess of 75 mph.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Are banks open on Veterans Day?—
Kaycee Sloan,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Nov. 2025
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However, bank ATMs and digital banking features will typically still be available.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
11 Nov. 2025
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Theories range from the Fitzgerald striking a shoal and suffering bottom damage to flooding through the freighter's hatch covers, which filled the ship with water and sank it, to rogue waves, to structural flaws in the ship that the 1975 storm made deadly.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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The debris appears as a large cloud of dirty water seen beyond the shoals off Montego Bay.—
Avery Schmitz,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Sandbar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandbar. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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