sandbar
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Covering four representative species—the great white, the sandbar, the small-spotted catshark and the spiny dogfish—Daniel C. Abel and Sophie A. Maycock deliver breadth without sacrificing depth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
Bar push is caused when deposition on the inside of a bend forms a sandbar, which pushes the curve outward.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
Police and wildlife officials began trying to free the male whale from the shallow sandbar off the beach in Venice on Sunday morning.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
He says he searched for a year, on beaches from Myanmar to the Maldives, before finding his first piece, from the rear stabilizer of the plane, on a sandbar in Mozambique.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
It narrowed again and put a few rocks in your way and a few eddies to swirl you around and then maybe a sandbar to stop you short.
From "Ruby Holler" by Sharon Creech
