sandbank

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Recent Examples of sandbank Across the river, a low mantle of vegetation grew along the shore — a new sandbank, Aires explained, creeping closer each year. Michael Snyder, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2025 Try the Castaway Picnic experience on a private sandbank with lunch, snorkeling gear, sunbeds, and umbrellas to while away the afternoon. Katie Kiefner, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2025 When the waters are low, the heavy boats, laden with metal and with foodstuffs, run aground on the sandbanks of the river. Eugène-Melchior De Vogüé, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for sandbank
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbank
Noun
  • Torch Lake in Michigan stuns with its clear turquoise water, deep glacial roots, and iconic summer sandbar scene.
    Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2025
  • The river had shallows, marshes, sandbars, oxbows, eddies, weed flats and drop offs, all of which created nurseries, hiding spots and ambush points for a food chain that included aquatic bugs, frogs, fish, turtles, alligators, deer, otters, panthers and eagles.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 29 June 2025
Noun
  • The original Thomas Crown Affair landed two Oscar nominations and tells the story of an insurance investigator working to track down the perpetrator of a bank heist.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2025
  • She was then driven to a nearby bank to withdraw the money.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 21 July 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 30 Jul. 2025.

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