Sentence examples for sandbank from inspiring English sources

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sandbank

noun

A ridge of sand along a shore that is partially or totally submerged and thus a hazard to shipping.

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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.

Claiming a line drawn seaward from its concave coast would be unfair, Bangladesh wants a "nuanced" boundary, accounting for undersea geology and a sandbank.

The case rests in part on a tiny sandbank named Quitasueño, which, if defined as an "island" by the court, will be Colombian territory.Bangladesh has taken India to court over an oil-rich area in the Bay of Bengal.

"When some sandbank over a superslots hibernates, a directness toward a progressive jackpot earns frequent flier miles" is a typical example.

A sandbank off the coast of Venice is unlikely to suffice.

The government of the day ignored the findings and instead chose an unstable sandbank in the outer reaches of the Thames estuary.

In the autumn of 1724, seeing some soldiers in danger of drowning from a ship aground on a sandbank in the Gulf of Finland, he characteristically plunged himself into the icy water to help them.

Because it was known that some comets were associated with meteor showers observed on Earth, the "sandbank" model suggested that a comet was simply a cloud of meteoritic particles held together by its own gravity.

In addition, the total amount of gases that could be adsorbed on a sandbank cloud was not sufficient to explain the measured gas production rates of many observed comets.

The Thames is some 205 miles (330 km) long, running 140 miles (226 km) from the source to the tidal waters limit i.e., from Thames Head to Teddington Lock and, as an estuary, a further 65 miles (104 km) from there to The Nore sandbank, which marks the transition from estuary to open sea.

The nest is a hole dug with the downcurved bill, generally in a sandbank.

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