How To Use Sandbank In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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He dived into the water and hit a sandbank and was rendered a quadriplegic.
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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".
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For a moment, I envisage us grating across a coral reef, or running aground on a sandbank.
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It takes me a tick to spot the chestnutcoloured croc languishing on a sandbank.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The boat stuck on a sandbank but we soon got it afloat again.
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The new hovercraft, designed to be used on mud and sandbanks as well as shallow water, was unveiled at the RNLI lifeboat station in Morecambe, Lancashire.
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The sandbank area could accommodate up to 200 turbine bases, and the construction project will create an anticipated 420 new jobs.
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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!
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There, between two waters clear as crystal, through the open panels we were allowed to contemplate the beautiful bushes of brilliant coral and large blocks of rock clothed with a splendid fur of green variety of sites and landscapes along these sandbanks and algae and fuci.
Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Some are just mudflats, some just sandbanks, many are rocky outcrops and skerries known only to seals, albatrosses, and retired lighthouse-keepers.
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The boat stuck on a sandbank but we soon got it afloat again.
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He landed wheels-up on the sandbank and he and all the crew escaped certain death.
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For centuries the efforts of man and nature have created a series of shifting offshore sandbanks and coastal dunes.
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Our ship grounded in shallow water / on a sandbank.
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Rescue teams had desperately tried to refloat the 36 ft creature and had hoped that at high tide on Sunday, they would be able to lift it from the sandbank and help it back out to sea.
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The boat stuck on a sandbank but we soon got it afloat again.
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Afterwards they allowed us to sling our hammocks in one of their thatched shelters while they all went down to sleep on sandbanks by the river.
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Two men were shrugging themselves into frogmen 's suits on the sandbank.
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Sandbanks act as nursery grounds for many commercial fish species such as plaice and sole whilst also supporting sand eel communities that are a food source for seabirds and mammals such as seals, it said.
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Attempts to re-light the boiler failed, and now the vessel was in real trouble; drifting, powerless, pitching and rolling, driven by wind and tide towards a sandbank in the dark.
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Later that afternoon, the old guy settles himself comfortably on his back porch, looking downrange proudly at the targets on the sandbank 50 yards away.
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Constantly feel for the bottom, often you will feel the sinker dragging up the side of a sandbank, then a ‘floating’ sensation as the sinker clears the crest of the sandbank.
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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
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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.
Cornwall-Devon boundary may change
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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
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I know now, that the place names in shipping forecasts are usually sandbanks, river estuaries, and those types of things.
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But the facts were that he alleged that Council was negligent because they had placed the flags at a location that was inappropriate, because there were sandbanks there.
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In fact, many people, including myself, don't know how the sandbank in the area was created, and about its great influence upon the geology and tidal patterns of the region.
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Fifty miles southwest of the town on a tiny island in the delta, lies the Adziogol Lighthouse, an important beacon for ships navigating the tangle of sandbanks.
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As a geographical name, its terrain is equal to the sandbank territories now in the east of Inner Mongolia, which is called in relief as Horquin Sandlot.
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Above the direct destruction, enormous quantities of mud was moved by floodwaters and landslides, entire hilltops changing places, and rivers changing course, shifting sandbanks.
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The deep channel often had a strong current but we still persevered (maybe a little recklessly) and swam out to the sandbanks to join the seals who basked there.
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He claims the construction of a pier led directly to the formation to the sandbank in a designated safe swimming area.
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Carlo tossed the submachine gun to him, then followed and they moved into the mist along the sandbank.
THE KEYS OF HELL
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This is definitely so for small juvenile fish, but the bigger adults prefer a mix of clean and broken ground, often seeking out gravel banks and sandbanks adjacent to much rougher ground.
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They glided forward and grounded gently against a sandbank as Orsini came out on deck and joined them.
THE KEYS OF HELL
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The reason is the same - the cold Benguela Current, from the southwest, which sweeps shoals inshore and boats onto sandbanks.
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The remains of the boat have been submerged in a sandbank in the Princes Channel area of the estuary, 15 miles from Shoebury, since the 1570s.
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The deep channel often had a strong current but we still persevered (maybe a little recklessly) and swam out to the sandbanks to join the seals who basked there.
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Midday I ferried from Gourock to Dunoon to join a high speed, powerboat ride based at Holy Loch Marina, in Sandbank, near Dunoon.
Lea Lane: Seaplanes, Bikes And City Life In Scotland
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The Portland Race is caused by the meeting of the tides between the Bill and the Shambles sandbank about 3 miles SE.
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And when ‘idiots’ came driving by in 4-wheel drives, the waves they created could splash into the home but for the sandbanks he laid in front of the door.
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Scientists believe it ran aground on the estuary's treacherous sandbanks and capsized with 50 or 60 hands on deck.
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Our boat got caught on a sandbank as we returned home.
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The second frogman waddled towards the farther side of the sandbank --
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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)
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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 $$$.
Not Closing the Gap - NASA Watch
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Seven major grassland types have been identified, which consitute about 20% of the park's area: Themeda villosa forms a tall grass cover in clearings in the sal forest; Saccharum-Narenga associations grow as mixed and pure stands of tall grass (Saccharum spontaneum is one of the first species to colonize newly created sandbanks); Arundo-Phragmites associations form dense tall stands along stream beds on the floodplain and around lakes; Imperata cylindrica grows prolificallyin areas within the park which were occupied by villages prior to their evacuation in 1964; various short grasses and herbs grown on exposed sandbanks during the dry months and become much more prolific with the outset of rain in May (e.g. Polygonum plebeium, Persicaria spp. and sedges such as Cyperus, Kyllinga and Mariscus spp.); Cynodon dactylon and Chrysopogon aciculatus and other short grasses grow in highest areas near riverine forest all the year round; and low-lying stands of Saccharum spontaneum, which are destroyed by repeated flooding early in the monsoon.
Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal
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His body was found yesterday morning by his son-in-law in an area of sandbanks and mud flats about a mile from the high water mark at Bardsea, near Ulverston.
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What was formerly a sandbank has now become fertile paddy fields.
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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
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It is fine made by the animal concentrate and plant elite which live in the sandbank.
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We waited for the tide to float the boat off the sandbank.
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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.
At Age 850, Still in the Game
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The ships could not hang about off the treacherous sandbanks of the river mouth in winds from that quarter.
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Shoal water is an area made shallow by a sandbank or sandbar.
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If it had been caught in a strong gust it could have been driven onto one of the sandbanks.
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We waited for the tide to float the boat off the sandbank.
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The sandbank was uncertain, like quicksand under his feet.
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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
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Sandbanks and coastal marshes are now clear, as are the variations in the sediment load of the estuarine waters.
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The second frogman waddled towards the farther side of the sandbank --
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