How to Use sandbank in a Sentence

sandbank

noun

• The ship ran aground on a sandbank.
• The last high tide must have clawed at the sandbank enough to expose the ring.
  — CBS News, 20 Aug. 2022
• The cove had an apron of concrete instead of a sandbank.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2022
• One of the helicopters from the popular theme park was able to land on the sandbank.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2023
• Huddling in the wind, walled in by desert sandbanks, they have been driven there by war.
  — Bill Neely, NBC News, 8 May 2017
• When the waters are low, the heavy boats, laden with metal and with foodstuffs, run aground on the sandbanks of the river.
  — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• Instead, get a quart-sized bucket, dig a hole in a likely mud or sandbank, and bury the bucket so that the top is flush with the soil surface.
  — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
• Tasmania's largest mass stranding has seen 470 whales trapped on a sandbank on the island's west coast this week.
  — NBC News, 24 Sep. 2020
• The island would be around two square miles in size and would be located in the Dogger Bank, a windy shallow sandbank around 60 miles off the coast of England.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2017
• There were sunset champagne cruises to a sandbank, movie nights, and dancing.
  — Town & Country, 14 Dec. 2022
• Bill Milner normally took to the quiet waters of the Neches River to fish for bass or lunch on a sandbank.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• When the sea recedes, birds forage the soaking wetlands, and hundreds of seals can be seen congregating on a sandbank.
  — Stephen Castle, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• Up to 25 percent of the world’s maritime traffic passes through the strait, which often has bad weather, cramped shipping lanes, strong currents, sandbanks and a wide range of tides.
  — Philippe Sotto, The Seattle Times, 1 July 2017
• Perhaps most fun of all, the stay also includes a private excursion for deep-sea fishing and a day on a private sandbank.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2020
• Each fall to this day, when the river recedes, a sandbank emerges that can accommodate a pop-up city for millions of believers.
  — Andrew Stark, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Spatial learning in this instance saved them from falling onto a sandbank.
  — Yao-Hua Law, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2015
• The resort’s latest offering is the new Shack, located on a private sandbank.
  — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2023
• The latest migrant shipwreck comes two weeks after a wooden boat that sailed from Turkey ran into a sandbank in rough seas off a beach in Calabria, the toe of the Italian peninsula.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
• Hippos goggled at us from their muddy pools; crocodiles blinked from sandbanks.
  — Paul Theroux, Town & Country, 17 June 2013
• Earlier this year, a migrant boat navigating on that route slammed into a sandbank just off a Calabrian beach town and broke apart.
  — Frances D'emilio, ajc, 8 June 2023
• Julian and Lincoln Barnwell, local divers, have positively identified the shipwreck of the Gloucester, a royal vessel that struck a sandbank and sank in 1682.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 9 June 2022
• The water levels have also become unusually low, exposing sandbanks that allow the curious to stand in the middle of the river.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2019
• The water levels have also become unusually low, exposing sandbanks in the middle of the river.
  — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• Visitors here will find a long sandbank extending into the azure water that feels otherworldly.
  — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 3 Aug. 2020
• Teens, parents and faculty are working overtime to transform the school in a tropical paradise complete with synthetic sandbanks, Hawaiian themed huts, and a 16-foot waterfall.
  — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2018
• Deep-sea fishing, sunset cruises, and trips to the incredible Nakupenda Beach sandbank off of Stone Town are especially popular.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 27 Mar. 2023
• The other helicopter, which was carrying six passengers, landed on a sandbank, according to police.
  — Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2023
• In the country's biggest ever whale beaching, 470 whales were first spotted on a wide sandbank during an aerial reconnaissance of rugged Macquarie Harbor in Tasmania state last Monday.
  — NBC News, 26 Sep. 2020
• Environmental factors such as water temperature and even the angle of sandbanks where females like to nest can be a factor in fertilization and hatching success.
  — Isabella Volmert, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2023
• Other programming is available to wellness guests as well, including off-island experiences on a private sandbank, sunset dinners, and more.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 3 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024