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Recent Examples of sandbank
Since the sixties, Pickford explained, divers had been searching for the wreck off the wrong sandbank.
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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
But slowly, its reputation for crystal-clear water and sugary soft sandbanks leaked and travelers are starting to catch on to this coastal secret just north of Merida.
—Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2024
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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
But slowly, its reputation for crystal-clear water and sugary soft sandbanks leaked and travelers are starting to catch on to this coastal secret just north of Merida.
—Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 13 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbank
Noun
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Foster moved across a pond of brackish water that reaches from the bottom of his lawn to a sandbar two miles away, beyond which the ocean can be heard but not seen.—
Ian Parker,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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But low spots in the ocean floor, near surf or breaks in sandbars, disrupt that uniform return of water.—
John Bacon,
USA TODAY,
18 Aug. 2024
Noun
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In the summer, the Buttes-Chaumont Park is as popular a picnic destination as Paris Plages along the banks of the Seine.—
Lane Nieset,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Jan. 2025
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Moscow's forces still occupy the far bank of the Dnipro River just a few miles away.—
Brian Mann,
NPR,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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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
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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 1 Feb. 2025.
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