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  • noun Plural form of sandbank.

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Examples

  • At that point, according to several witnesses, soldiers behind sandbanks opened fire with tear gas, sound bombs and live rounds.

    Death Toll Mounts in Gulf Joe Parkinson 2011

  • Generations and centuries passed, and, behold, in place of naked sandbanks half awash were walled citadels, perforated with launching-ways for the long canoes, protected against the mainland by the lagoons that were to them their narrow seas.

    CHAPTER X 2010

  • More than once the sea tribes of the Frisii, Cananefates and Chauci had to dig a bunch of Roman ships out of sandbanks, and once part of a fleet ended up in Britain where some kindly disposed Celtic chief sent them back instead of plundering the ships.

    Locations: Kinder Scout, Derbyshire Carla 2010

  • And then they discovered that because of my unfortunate left-handedness, me copying the tracings of the latest sandbanks and wrecks onto the charts that came in from the ships that came ashore in Liverpool probably have increased the amount of naval disasters.

    Elvis Costello Plays Not My Job 2010

  • “It is the harbor—the natural harbor—between the low-water mark and the sandbanks.”

    The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010

  • People weren't talking about things like the sandbanks and overcrowding.

    70 Dead After Boats Capsize On Congo's Rivers 2010

  • And then they discovered that because of my unfortunate left-handedness, me copying the tracings of the latest sandbanks and wrecks onto the charts that came in from the ships that came ashore in Liverpool probably have increased the amount of naval disasters.

    Elvis Costello Plays Not My Job 2010

  • People weren't talking about things like the sandbanks and overcrowding.

    70 Dead After Boats Capsize On Congo's Rivers 2010

  • And then they discovered that because of my unfortunate left-handedness, me copying the tracings of the latest sandbanks and wrecks onto the charts that came in from the ships that came ashore in Liverpool probably have increased the amount of naval disasters.

    Elvis Costello Plays Not My Job 2010

  • People weren't talking about things like the sandbanks and overcrowding.

    70 Dead After Boats Capsize On Congo's Rivers 2010

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