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 whale turned out to be stranded on a nearby sandbank.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
  • Huddling in the wind, walled in by desert sandbanks, they have been driven there by war.
    — Bill Neely, NBC News, 8 May 2017
  • One of the helicopters from the popular theme park was able to land on the sandbank.
    — Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 2 Jan. 2023
  • There were sunset champagne cruises to a sandbank, movie nights, and dancing.
    — Town & Country, 14 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Special meals can be provided on a sandbank or a deserted beach.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 June 2026
  • Spatial learning in this instance saved them from falling onto a sandbank.
    — Yao-Hua Law, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2015
  • Hippos goggled at us from their muddy pools; crocodiles blinked from sandbanks.
    — Paul Theroux, Town & Country, 17 June 2013
  • On social media, the whale had been dubbed Timmy, after the first sandbank that he was stranded on.
    — Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
  • More than seven miles long and up to half a mile wide, the Kniepsand sandbank that faces the open sea shifts slightly every year.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The resort’s latest offering is the new Shack, located on a private sandbank.
    — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2023
  • In a breakthrough moment, rescuers dug a channel through the sandbank, allowing the whale to swim free early Friday.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Visitors here will find a long sandbank extending into the azure water that feels otherworldly.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
  • Visitors here will find a long sandbank extending into the azure water that feels otherworldly.
    — Maya Kachroo-Levine, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • In early April rescuers called off the effort to save the creature, which had repeatedly become stuck on sandbanks and seemed in bad physical shape.
    — K. R. Callaway, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The water levels have also become unusually low, exposing sandbanks in the middle of the river.
    — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • Its seven sweeping residences are accented with blues and fringed curtains, stretching the width of the island’s sandbank with plenty of privacy.
    — Skyli Alvarez, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 May 2026
  • The sighting comes a day after the whale escaped its previous stranding site, a sandbank near Timmendorfer Strand.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The other helicopter, which was carrying six passengers, landed on a sandbank, according to police.
    — Arkansas Online, 3 Jan. 2023

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