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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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbank
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Navigating these giants through narrow harbor entrances, past shallow sandbars, or around other marine traffic is no simple task.—
David Nikel,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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In a separate video, a People's Liberation Army Navy low-flying helicopter can be seen hovering just overhead the pair of inflatable rafts transporting the Philippine researchers to one of the sandbars.—
Joel Thayer,
Newsweek,
27 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The bank projects about 25,000 job losses caused by Elon Musk’s task force.—
Josh Fellman,
Quartz,
4 Apr. 2025
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Investment bank JPMorgan on Thursday warned that the tariffs are likely to push the U.S. and the world into a recession.—
Maria Aspan,
NPR,
4 Apr. 2025
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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
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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 16 Apr. 2025.
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