sandbar

noun

Definition of sandbarnext
as in dune
a raised area of sand with a top that is near or just above the surface of the water in an ocean, lake, or river We walked out onto the sandbar at low tide.

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Recent Examples of sandbar The actual sandbar is not at any of the luxury properties. — Mackenzie Schmidt, People.com, 17 Feb. 2025 This remote sandbar off the coast of Nova Scotia is where the pinnipeds rest, breed, give birth to their pups, and mingle with the island’s wild horses. — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Feb. 2025 But the dolphin was able to make it over the sandbar and swam back out. — CBS News, 4 Nov. 2024 The Enquirer reached out to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for more information about the sandbar and is awaiting a response. — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for sandbar
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbar
  1. dune
  2. embankment
  3. ridge
  4. bank
  5. shoal
Noun
  • Located in Panama City Beach, St. Andrews State Park is right on the water and features white-sand beaches, hiking trails through dunes and pine forests, and water put-ins directly from the campground.
    — Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The Navy has built sea walls and worked to restore coastal dunes and marshlands to protect its Virginia properties, but the risks continue to increase.
    — Paul Bierman, The Conversation, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of dune
Noun
  • Officers found Sharkey’s car, a white 2019 Chevrolet Spark, at the bottom of an embankment on the side of the highway.
    — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2025
  • The man and his dog spent the night trapped in the wreck in the woods about 30 feet down an embankment from the highway, the Sierra County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
    — Don Sweeney, Sacramento Bee, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of embankment
Noun
  • If finding indoor shelter is not an option: Avoid open fields, the top of a hill, or a ridge top.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Sitting on the top of a ridge, the residence looks down upon Chili Bar, one of California’s most popular whitewater stretches, and the old historic flume in the distance.
    — David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of ridge
Noun
  • 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
Definition of bank
Noun
  • After President Emmanuel Macron of France navigated his meeting with President Trump on Monday, skirting the rockiest shoals but making little headway, Mr. Starmer, the British prime minister, will meet Mr. Trump on Thursday to plead for the United States not to abandon Ukraine.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Nearly every major American relationship in Asia—even with Washington’s two closest treaty allies, Japan and Australia—is heading for rockier shoals.
    — Evan A. Feigenbaum, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of shoal

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