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  • noun Plural form of mudbank.

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Examples

  • Then try to imagine the multitudinous impact of mudbanks.

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • High tide covers the mudbanks so that the river appears as a lake surrounded by woods.

    Country diary: Cornwall Virginia Spiers 2010

  • Then try to imagine the multitudinous impact of mudbanks.

    THE HEATHEN 2010

  • On the mudbanks of the Amper River, the children of Dachau with cast-off spoons and wooden spades dig tidewater holes and capture little fishes, tadpoles, and clean white human bones.

    Dachau July 2010 The Sixty-fifth Anniversary of the Liberation marci stillerman 2010

  • I was almost done, with exhaustion and panic, and then Sullivan was alongside, tugging at me, pointing ahead - and I saw that the placid surface was breaking up into a long, swirling race where the water ran down between two little scrubby mudbanks.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Large stands of keora Sonneratia apetala are found on newly accreted mudbanks and provide important wildlife habitat.

    Sundarbans, Bangladesh 2009

  • Its substrate is composed of anastomosing mudbanks and unconsolidated calcareous sediments over limestones and is one of the most active areas of modern carbonate sedimentation.

    Everglades National Park, United States 2009

  • About half of the Sundarbans is under water and the rest of the landscape is characterized by low-lying alluvial islands and mudbanks, with sandy beaches and dunes along the coast.

    Sundarbans National Park, India 2008

  • I have written here many time about the sandpipers – who depend on the slime of the mudbanks near Deltaport.

    Declining bird numbers could be swan song for ecosystem « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

  • I have written here many time about the sandpipers – who depend on the slime of the mudbanks near Deltaport.

    13 « October « 2008 « Stephen Rees’s blog 2008

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