Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ridge of sand forming a mound, shoal, or hillside.
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- noun A
ridge ofsand along ashore that is partially or totallysubmerged and thus ahazard toshipping .
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- noun a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide
Etymologies
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Examples
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Grainger saw that on the sandbank were a number of dead fish which had been swept down the creek from pools higher up.
"Chinkie's Flat" 1904 Louis Becke 1884
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Perched upon a sandbank was a regiment of enormous white pelicans of thoughtful and sage-like physiognomy, ranged in a row, as if to watch how we passed the bar.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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Perched upon a sandbank was a regiment of enormous white pelicans of thoughtful and sage-like physiognomy, ranged in a row, as if to watch how we passed the bar.
Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843
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I have said that there were ten thousand of us that stood hip to hip and shoulder to shoulder on the sandbank.
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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The new constituency would stretch from Port Isaac bay in Cornwall to Bideford bar, a sandbank in the Taw-Torridge estuary in Devon.
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The Lewis Chessmen, found in a sandbank in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's chilly Outer Hebrides, remain a mystery.
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He makes it to a sandbank, but instead of waiting for help, he swims into the open water, driven by an overpowering impulse: What was happening to him was inexplicable, magical even, but it felt quite natural.
The Rancher & the Sculptor Sam Sacks 2011
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Here you'll find a sandbank protected by coral reefs where the water is only about three feet deep and the legend has it that this is where Josephine came to bathe.
Karen Schaler: Martinique: French Flair Caribbean Style (PHOTOS) Karen Schaler 2011
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They'll wait until NASA steers Shuttle replacement onto a sandbank and then waltz over to Congress with cheap alternatives which (or so they will tell the politicos) they can have in space within a few short years so long as Uncle Sugar can provide the required $$$.
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The brown sandbank is hard and firm, and the ocean water is soupy in the hot August sun.
Rocky Kistner: To the End of the Bayou; a Gulf Memory for Our Kids Rocky Kistner 2011
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