Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A ridge of sand formed in a river or along a shore by the action of waves or currents.
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- noun A
ridge ofsand caused by the action ofwaves along ashore .
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- noun a bar of sand
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Examples
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"I suppose you know where every hidden rock and sunken tree and sandbar is in this river?"
Through Glacier Park: Seeing America First with Howard Eaton 1916
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Having -- but what they didn ` t know is they bumped into a kind of false sandbar, which is actually notorious in Amagansett.
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Similar to the plunder of limestone in the Jaffna Peninsula, agents of Colombo are now engaged in scooping the sand dunes of the Ma'n'niththalai sandbar, which is of immense natural beauty and of archaeological as well as tourist potentiality, sources in Poonakari said.
TamilNet Newswire 2010
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State conservation enforcement officers boarded five vessels, issued nine warnings and terminated two boating trips during stepped-up marine safety patrols around the Ahu O Laka sandbar in Kaneohe Bay over the Labor Day weekend.
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State conservation enforcement officers boarded five vessels, issued nine warnings and terminated two boating trips during stepped-up marine safety patrols around the Ahu O Laka sandbar in Kaneohe Bay over the Labor Day weekend.
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Page view page image: bank fell in so fast as to oblige us to cross the river instantly, between the northern side and a sandbar which is constantly moving and banking with the violence of the current.
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Passing near the southern shore, the bank fell in so fast as to oblige us to cross the river instantly, between the northern side and a sandbar which is constantly moving and banking with the violence of the current.
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When the Titan hits a "sandbar" in space, lurching to a halt and wreaking havoc on the ship and its systems, it ends up in the middle of a centuries-long war.
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The far south end of the lake is the "sandbar" area.
Pure Michigan Travel 2009
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The far south end of the lake is the "sandbar" area.
Pure Michigan Travel 2009
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