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

At the time, water from the firefighting effort had swept down the mountain creek and unnaturally breached a sandbar that separated the lagoon from the Pacific Ocean.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025

"It's probably the only festival that's dependent on air pressure, which dictates how far the tide goes out and how long we can stay on the sandbar," he said.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 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

It was a rocky sandbar a mile wide at its widest and a little longer than that, fringed all about with shoals and rocks.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin