sandbank

as in sandbar

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Recent Examples of sandbank To accommodate this throng of humanity, a temporary city of impossible proportions springs up on the sandbanks, featuring tented accommodations, roadways, power supplies, and medical facilities. Selina Denman, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Nov. 2024 Since the sixties, Pickford explained, divers had been searching for the wreck off the wrong sandbank. 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 See All Example Sentences for sandbank
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Noun
  • During your stay, explore the property’s lush landscape, onsite garden, private creek access and sandbars, and seven miles of mixed-use trails.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2025
  • How to spot a rip current Rip currents typically form at low spots or breaks in sandbars, and can occur at any beach with breaking waves, according to the NOAA.
    Emily DeLetter, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
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  • In September 2024 the FDIC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that was designed to reinforce and clarify the recordkeeping requirements for bank deposits help by nonbank companies.
    Sean Stein Smith, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
  • In a major policy reversal, the SEC rescinded Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 — a controversial rule that required banks to treat crypto assets as liabilities on their balance sheets.
    MacKenzie Sigalos,Ari Levy, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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 2 Apr. 2025.

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