What is "sandbars"

Usage examples of "sandbars".

Slow and muddy as it is, bound to be hidden sandbars all over the place.

There are sandbars at the entrance to the marshes and a great raft of wood.

Safe enough in some winds, I can think of conditions when a liner would be as safe at anchor there as running blind among the sandbars of the Skeleton Coast.

I couldn't imagine how they would ever have got through the wicked sandbars at the mouth of the river, even with surf-boats and surf crews.

Nicholas could see the sandbars and reefs through the ocean below, as if staring through green glass.

Instantly a half-dozen sailors scrambled aloft and began looking for signs of sandbars and other shallow-water hazards.

Beyond the sandbars and the remnants of offshore mist Bolitho saw the dark outline of land and the once busy waterway to Bordeaux.

There were sandbars beyond her, and Hyperion was near the centre of the main channel.

You may also have observed it is little more than a swamp, filled with rushes and sandbars, and for that reason is not suitable for large craft.

He nodded across the channel, toward the tangle of the sandbars, and fingered his spear.