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sandbank

[sand-bangk] / ˈsændˌbæŋk /
NOUN
sand bar
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NOUN
shoal
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Firefighters continue to tackle wildfires in the Ballagh Road, Newcastle, and Sandbank Road, Hilltown, areas of the mountains.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

A major incident was declared after the large wildfire broke out on the Sandbank Road in Hilltown about 17:00 BST on Saturday.

From BBC • Apr. 6, 2025

She said the monument still has just one drive-in campground, at Sandbank Stream, and several hike-in campsites, all of which are first-come, first-served.

From New York Times • Dec. 6, 2017

If anything surpasses it, it is Jan van de Cappelle’s marine depicting “Two Smalschips and Other Shipping Off a Sandbank in a Calm,” to use the long-winded title coined by 20th-century catalogers.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2011

We went into Sandbank Bay, and I landed at the village of Domara. 

From Adventures in New Guinea by Chalmers, James




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