Sandbank

Synonyms for "sandbank" (52 found)

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Closest matches (11)

aitarchipelagoatollbankbarcaycontinental islandcoral headcoral headscoral islandcoral reef

Strong matches (15)

flatfordholminsularityironbound coastislandisland groupislandologyisleisletkeyledgeledgeslee shoreoceanic island

Related words (26)

Noun(5 words)
Adjective(1 words)

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

5 relation types

More general

3 entries
bankgeographic featurelandform

More specific

4 entries
estuarine sandbankriverine sandbankseasonal sandbanktidal sandbank

Collocations

5 entries
estuarine sandbankexposed sandbankriver sandbanksandbank formationtidal sandbank

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

When she came back she had hundreds of things to tell them, but the most delightful of all, she said, was to lie in the moonlight, on a sandbank in a calm sea, and to gaze at the large town close to the shore, where the lights twinkled like hundreds of stars; to listen to music and the noise and bustle of carriages and people, to see the many church towers and spires, and to hear the bells ringing.

Source: tatoeba (7741029)

Saltwater crocodiles are thought to pose little danger to the whales unless the humpbacks become stranded on a sandbank.

Source: tatoeba (9044092)

The ship is stranded on a sandbank.

Source: tatoeba (9977587)

The ship has run into a sandbank offshore.

Source: tatoeba (10042914)

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