sandbank
Example Sentences
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In Bulgaria, a cruise ship got stuck on a sandbank on the Danube.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Last week, 186 passengers had to be brought ashore from a Viking cruise liner that hit a sandbank because of low water levels near the city of Vidin in Bulgaria.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The BBC understands the boy may have been on a sandbank when he was cut off from the shore, sparking the rescue efforts.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
The whale was first spotted stuck on a sandbank on 23 March, off the island of Poel on Germany's Baltic coast.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
“So you’ll have to take a boat. Crocodile Guts’s boat was pulled up on a sandbank when he died. I doubt whether anyone has disturbed it.”
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
