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

All of the injuries were from the ferry, which came to rest on a sandbar.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 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

The original Terminal Island had been nothing more than a glorified sandbar known as Rattlesnake Island, named for the animals that washed into the harbor during heavy rains.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2024

Jack’s see-yah was born on the Ediz Hook—a sandbar that extends into the Strait of Juan de Fuca—in 1928.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day