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Recent Examples of sandbank
Try the Castaway Picnic experience on a private sandbank with lunch, snorkeling gear, sunbeds, and umbrellas to while away the afternoon.
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Katie Kiefner, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2025
When the waters are low, the heavy boats, laden with metal and with foodstuffs, run aground on the sandbanks of the river.
—Eugène-Melchior De Vogüé, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
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
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Katie Kiefner, Vogue, 1 Jan. 2025
When the waters are low, the heavy boats, laden with metal and with foodstuffs, run aground on the sandbanks of the river.
—Eugène-Melchior De Vogüé, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sandbank
Noun
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Experience the bluffs, forests and sandbars of the lower Mississippi on an outing with Quapaw Canoe Company.—
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 June 2025
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On May 26, a 39-foot Sea Ray burst into flames in the Intracoastal Waterway, near the large sandbar by the New River.—
Devoun Cetoute,
Miami Herald,
4 June 2025
Noun
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Should these banks grow larger or regulators intervene, Chime’s business model becomes vulnerable, unsettling investor confidence.—
Ron Shevlin,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2025
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No woman should ever have to choose between her baby and her bank account.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
Noun
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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 20 Jun. 2025.
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