How to Use sandbar in a Sentence

sandbar

noun

• We walked out onto the sandbar at low tide.
• The dropping tide had pulled us down the slough, from the duck shack to the ocean, to the sandbar.
  — Erin McKittrick, Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Sep. 2017
• Some of the men on the sandbar threw their hats in the air and hurrahed.
  — Trevor Paulhus, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2019
• The species that are making headlines are the sandbar shark, the dusky shark, and the sand-tiger shark.
  — Curbed, 21 July 2022
• Sand tiger, sandbar and dusky sharks are some of the more common species found near shore.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2022
• The lake is also known for its 2-mile sandbar at its south end.
  — Mika Travis, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2023
• One of the men managed to work his way against the stream and beach himself on a nearby sandbar.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Oct. 2022
• Time and tide have always wiped the slate clean here, like footprints on a sandbar.
  — Charles Graeber, Travel + Leisure, 6 Mar. 2021
• Arctic terns, common along the sandbars of the Maclaren, have yet to show.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 10 June 2018
• The raft hit a sandbar, ripping loose dozens of logs, which floated away.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• We were now beached on the stubborn sandbar of the vaccine holdouts.
  — Danielle Ofri, The New Yorker, 12 June 2021
• The point on which the house sits is wrapped by a sandbar, which creates 238 feet of prime sandy shoreline on Phelps Bay.
  — Kim Palmer, Star Tribune, 18 Dec. 2020
• The site lies between the islets of Koh Nang Yuan, which are connected by a sandbar.
  — Melissa Locker, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2024
• Rip currents often form at breaks in sandbars and close to piers and rock groins.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 27 June 2023
• Along the way, take a break at one of the sandbars or tiny beaches for a refreshing dip in the water.
  — Lori Rackl, chicagotribune.com, 23 July 2019
• Bargman steered the boat toward a sandbar that formed an island.
  — Ian James, The Arizona Republic, 17 Apr. 2021
• Mud flats stretch for hundreds of yards, and a long sandbar has emerged from the water reaching out across the bay.
  — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 11 June 2023
• Indeed, although it must be said that the next stop, the sandbar, was more its milieu.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2019
• Most people go with plans to get out on the water and dive, snorkel, fish, or just boat from reef to sandbar and back again.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2023
• The biggest issue is Tsurigasaki’s waves, which are formed by the build up of sandbars on the long stretch of beach.
  — Elliott Almond, The Mercury News, 24 July 2019
• Every time the man tries to leave the island, the turtle smashes his raft and knocks him back over the sandbar onto the beach.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 19 Jan. 2017
• The dinosaurs appear to have been fighting on a sandbar in the middle of a river.
  — Jeremy P. Jacobs, Science | AAAS, 10 July 2019
• But then a sandbar formed, sealing off the lake again, and the landscape stabilized.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
• Swells also break over a large sandbar to the south of the main channel, which is only a couple feet deep at low tide.
  — Brooke Baitinger, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• In the hook of one sandbar, a group of dolphins fed in waist-deep water, birds hovering for the leftovers.
  — David Brown, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2020
• Weeks later, a sandbar closed off the crater lake from the open ocean, protecting it from wave erosion.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 15 Dec. 2017
• Prefer to work under a canopy on a sandbar while feeling the sand between your toes?
  — Meena Thiruvengadam, Travel + Leisure, 11 Sep. 2020
• Stingray City, a group of sandbars located 25 miles off the shore of Grand Cayman, offers you a chance to snorkel and be among docile stingrays.
  — Kayla Brock, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Jan. 2023
• Also good for drift-and-cast and trolling fishermen was the Southeast side of the sandbar off Lorain.
  — cleveland, 17 June 2021
• Dispersion means slower flow and shallower water, the presence of sandbars interrupting the stream.
  — Beth Bachmann, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024