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n. (alternative spelling of sandbar English)
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n. a bar of sand [syn: sandbar]
Usage examples of "sand bar".
Bear Girl's asleep in the other room, and he's fighting the urge to bop on down to the Sand Bar and score some crank, his old vice, untouched for going on five years now.
That is an interesting question, he thinks, but after he gets back on the road and travels no more than a hundred feet, the low, gray wooden shape of the Sand Bar appears on his left, and without hesitating he turns into the absurdly extensive parking lot, as if he knew where he was going all along.
Cycads grew on the point of land and on the sand bar that was busy growing into a key.
They bound it on him, and he ran with it a few times down the sand bar, into the bitter wind, the others hauling him with a rope of twisted bark, to try its balance.
Erin built herself a Sand Bar-that is, a sand castle in the spitting image of Mary's Place-which struck several tourists dumb: as tall as she was, quite lifelike, and flanked by half a dozen little Sand Cars parked higgledy-piggledy.
He was a pilot and flew his plane as low as he dared over Yossarian's tent as often as he could, just to see how much he could frighten him, and loved to go buzzing with a wild, close roar over the wooden raft floating on empty oil drums out past the sand bar at the immaculate white beach where the men went swimming naked.
Spud and his father hooked a ride on the back of the tractor as it topped the sand bar and headed down to the outer beach toward the surf, the slowly revolving drum paying out the coaxial cable in a long black line behind it, the umbilical cord which gave it life and movement.