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sandbar Definition

sand·bar (-bär′)

noun

a ridge or shoal of sand formed in a river or along a shore by the action of currents or tides

sandbar Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • expose: An Osprey, Black Skimmers, Willets and Laughing Gulls sat on the exposed sandbars of Río San Cristóbal.
  • see: Line as respectively now defunct united see a sandbar.
  • shift: The 3 crew took our packs and pushed the boat over the shifting sandbars that had hampered our trip down the river.
  • form: Similar patterns of development sometimes exacerbate the consequences of collapse of the unconsolidated sediments forming sandbars.

Adjective modifier

  • offshore: Glaucous Gulls on the offshore sandbars to the East of Burry Port, Ivory Gull, 1 record at BPH.
  • large: Fraser Island is the largest sandbar in the world, stretching for 120 km.

Preposition: in

  • river: The Hood The old crocodile was lying on a sandbar in the river.
  • middle: Picks up most swells with lefts and rights off both sides of the Bay and sandbars in the middle.