sandbank

How To Use sandbank In A Sentence

• Natural deterrents against sea erosion (mangroves, sandbanks, reefs etc.) have been depleted to such extents that their revival cannot be considered a viable plan to counter sea disasters.
• The new pipeline runs straight across the edge of this very large sandbank, at one point only thirty feet from the surface at low tide. BARRACUDA 945
• He dived into the water and hit a sandbank and was rendered a quadriplegic.
• He lives in £10 million, faux Tudorbethan mansion on the exclusive Sandbanks peninsula near Poole in Dorset, and is a director of three companies whose activities are described as "the acquisition and development of real estate". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
• For a moment, I envisage us grating across a coral reef, or running aground on a sandbank.
• It takes me a tick to spot the chestnutcoloured croc languishing on a sandbank. Times, Sunday Times
• My first meeting with a jaguar took place one misty morning on a sandbank in northern Brazil, where I was trying to film giant expansa terrapins.
• The four had tried to swim to safety after being cut off by the rising tide but had regained the safety of the sandbank when the hovercraft arrived to lift them to safety on the shore at Red Bank.
• They were rammed up against rows of oak posts - first found during earlier excavations in 1981-which once formed either a jetty, or a causeway to a sandbank in the middle of the river.
• The boat stuck on a sandbank but we soon got it afloat again.