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
Uneven sandbars lifted and then dropped us in a slow-motion, repetitive dance on the sediment floor.
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Richard Greenberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Shorebirds and seagulls waded along a sandbar, poking their beaks into the sand to hunt for food.
—Max Chesnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
Pristine disappearing sandbars are also a huge draw, allowing visitors to walk on powdery white stretches in the remarkably clear waters as the tides roll out.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2026
Waters off the point are treacherous, including colliding currents, shoals and sandbars.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2026
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Richard Greenberg, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2026
Shorebirds and seagulls waded along a sandbar, poking their beaks into the sand to hunt for food.
—Max Chesnes, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Feb. 2026
Pristine disappearing sandbars are also a huge draw, allowing visitors to walk on powdery white stretches in the remarkably clear waters as the tides roll out.
—Lydia Price, Travel + Leisure, 30 Jan. 2026
Waters off the point are treacherous, including colliding currents, shoals and sandbars.
—Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 22 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbar
Noun
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There was quite a bit of beach, and the dune went out quite a bit, 50-60 feet.—
Ryan Hughes,
CBS News,
26 Mar. 2026
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The more than $200M in funding will help bankroll projects like road raising, dune reconstruction and storm pumps.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The crash comes just more than five years after Woods was involved in a serious rollover crash near Los Angeles, when his car went off the road going more than 80 mph and down an embankment in the Pacific Palisades in February 2021.—
Patrick Hipes,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2026
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Officials said the scared dog ran and jumped over the railing and fell down the embankment.—
Adam Thompson,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Or tackle the Cuilcagh Boardwalk Trail, also known as the Stairway to Heaven, which ascends through bogland and blanket bog to a ridge with sweeping views across the Fermanagh landscape.—
Condé Nast Traveler,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Mar. 2026
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As an upper-level heat ridge strengthens over northern Mexico and the Desert Southwest, highs will reach back into the 90s beginning Wednesday.—
Newsroom Meteorologist,
Austin American Statesman,
23 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Set the scene Set back from Via del Corso, one of Rome’s main arteries, this former noble palazzo, the 15th-century Palazzo Salviati Cesi Mellini, was also a bank before its present incarnation.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
31 Mar. 2026
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Carter presented Roosevelt with the deed for about 700,000 acres on the northern bank of the Rio Grande.—
Letters to the Editor,
Washington Post,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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As the southern Gulf Stream clashes with the northern Labrador Current, the rough waters steer sailors toward shallow shoals and ultimate disaster.—
Brian Higgins,
Outside,
2 Mar. 2026
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Under the cover of night on July 30, 1949, the Amethyst quenched all its lights on board and shadowed a passing Chinese merchant ship, the Kiangling Liberation, following it through the tricky shoals of the river.—
Anne Ewbank,
Popular Science,
18 Feb. 2026
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“Sandbar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sandbar. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.
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