sandbank

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I mean, it is nice to learn how to see a sandbank by the way waves break.

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A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.

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noun

A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sandbank.

noun

A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.

Example sentences

I mean, it is nice to learn how to see a sandbank by the way waves break.

It took almost a week to free her from the sandbank, because she grounded at high-tide.

It feels that you're trying to build a house on a sandbank.

Two dredgers had helped cut away at the sandbank, near the grounding.

One good sandbank and re-oil and it's good for 40 more.

> The Israeli soldiers remained on the sandbank while firing continuously at the aid workers for four minutes.

That part of the sea as well as Doggerland itself are named afer Dogger Bank, a large sandbank that must have been some promontory on Doggerland.

There were four ambulances and a fire truck with flashing lights on the roofs and the report says the soldiers had a clear view from the elevated sandbank.

Yes, SS Richard Montgomery: The ship was wrecked off the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Sheerness, England in August 1944, whilst carrying a cargo of munitions.

Proper noun examples

As an native English speaker, I would translate that bank's name to English as Fuck You Sandbank, which protected Buenos Aires once precisely from the same Royal Navy.