Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bank of sand; especially, a bank of sand formed by tides or currents.
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Examples
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The river, higher than the beach, was seeping through the immense sand-bank into the sea.
A Line Drawn in the Sand Heather McDougal 2008
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The river, higher than the beach, was seeping through the immense sand-bank into the sea.
Archive 2008-05-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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The water grew deeper and more swift, and it became gradually clear that there was a fallen tree trunk straining above us at the sand-bank; it stirred and pushed, the water rilling around it, and we stood back, silent now, waiting, while the water pushed above and ate away below.
Archive 2008-05-01 Heather McDougal 2008
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The water grew deeper and more swift, and it became gradually clear that there was a fallen tree trunk straining above us at the sand-bank; it stirred and pushed, the water rilling around it, and we stood back, silent now, waiting, while the water pushed above and ate away below.
A Line Drawn in the Sand Heather McDougal 2008
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It would have been no loss to the country, if he had been drowned when his ship, in going to Scotland to fetch his family, struck on a sand-bank, and was lost with two hundred souls on board.
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Wishing to obtain the latitude by the natural horizon, they waded into the water some distance towards what was reported to be a sand-bank, but were so assaulted by leeches, they were fain to retreat; and a woman told them that in enticing them into the water the men only wanted to kill them.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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The black at whom he fired, leaping up convulsively, fell dead upon the sand-bank, while another volley of spears, one of which passed through his shoulder, hurtled into the sand on every side of him.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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Doubly vexed at his wound and the inattention that had permitted his enemies thus to surprise him, he looked around without at first being able to perceive from what quarter the attack emanated; but all at once he caught the glare of a human eye, fixed upon him from behind a sand-bank.
Ralph Rashleigh 2004
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At its southern extremity the sand-bank merges in the beach of the island, and is backed by a luxuriant growth of lofty forest.
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The canal is not continued quite through, merely because every spring-tide would throw up just such a sand-bank as now exists.
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