What is "sandbar"

Usage examples of "sandbar".

In that time, the Archerfish had traversed the channels of Denmark, avoiding both the royal yacht and any random sandbars.

De Mille movie set, sweeping up from the cotton-rich bottomland to the spires and mansions on the great bluff, then back down again to the Triton plant and the sandbars where the river rolls on toward New Orleans and the Gulf.

The sandbar below them was thickly grown with willow and carrizo cane and the bluffs on the far side were stained and cavepocked and traversed by a constant myriad of swallows.

Kate gazed down the coastline, seeing the waves break on the sandbar, her Chincoteague storm sense kicking in.

The ship lurched in a crosscurrent off a newly formed sandbar, and she came near dropping her load.

During a flounder gigging trip on a moonless night, he had tried to use the harpoon to gig the flounder exposed in the soft mud flats and sandbars by the light of a lantern on a johnboat.

A man could be swept out to sea from one section of the shore, while a hundred yards away children cavorted in the diminishing waves without noticing the slightest tug from the current The unrelenting force of a rip current occurs when the longshore flow returns to the sea through narrow, stormgrooved valleys in offshore sandbars.

He could make out, a short distance away on the leeward side, an enormous sandbar, the Margate Hook, half-exposed by the ebbing tide.

To places like Nauru, the Cook Islands, Pitcairn and other sandbars that made Mafia, Inc.

But they put out across the mud flats and sandbars of that unsuitable harbor just before midnight and turned to follow a stiff northeasterly breeze, just right for sailing down the coast.

Downriver sandbars showed where fall had seen the river high above them, and the riverboats, half-loaded, still plied the middle of the channel with greatest care.

Nah Ree, the youth named Yao Che managed to ground his increasingly waterlogged raft on a sandbar, where it turned end for end, dumped him into the shallows, and took off for parts unknown.

By the time he felt the jolt of a sandbar under his feet, Oscar was already going over the side with the small suitcase they had picked up in Bimini, and that was the last time Drake saw him.

The coracles moved away around the sandbar and again disappeared into the green shadows of the shore.

The sandbar where they stood had once been in midchannel, but the channel had shifted.