Sandbank

Synonyms for "sandbank" (50 found)

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Translations

43 translations across 33 languages.

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Albanian

1 entries
  • ranishtë noun (ridge of sand)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • θίς noun (ridge of sand)

Breton

1 entries
  • traezhenn noun (ridge of sand)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • пясъчна плитчина noun (ridge of sand)

Catalan

1 entries
  • banc de sorra noun (ridge of sand)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 沙洲 noun (ridge of sand)

Czech

1 entries
  • písčina noun (ridge of sand)

Danish

1 entries
  • sandbanke noun (ridge of sand)

Dutch

1 entries
  • zandbank noun (ridge of sand)

French

1 entries
  • banc de sable noun (ridge of sand)

Galician

4 entries
  • banco de area noun (ridge of sand)
  • barra noun (ridge of sand)
  • restinga noun (ridge of sand)
  • taro noun (ridge of sand)

German

1 entries
  • Sandbank noun (ridge of sand)

Ido

1 entries
  • sablostrato noun (ridge of sand)

Igbo

1 entries
  • ubòm noun (ridge of sand)

Irish

1 entries
  • oitir noun (ridge of sand)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 砂州 noun (ridge of sand)

Korean

1 entries
  • 사주 noun (ridge of sand)

Latin

1 entries
  • syrtis noun (ridge of sand)

Māori

3 entries
  • ranga noun (ridge of sand)
  • tāhuna noun (ridge of sand)
  • tāhuna onepū noun (ridge of sand)

Norman

1 entries
  • banc d'sablion noun (ridge of sand)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • sandbanke noun (ridge of sand)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • sandbanke noun (ridge of sand)

Old English

1 entries
  • sandhryċġ noun (ridge of sand)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • قومسال noun (ridge of sand)

Polish

2 entries
  • mielizna noun (ridge of sand)
  • ławica piaskowa noun (ridge of sand)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • banco de areia noun (ridge of sand)

Punjabi

1 entries
  • ਬਰੇਤਾ noun (ridge of sand)

Russian

2 entries
  • ба́нка noun (ridge of sand)
  • о́тмель noun (ridge of sand)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • oitir noun (ridge of sand)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • prud noun (ridge of sand)
  • prudište noun (ridge of sand)

Spanish

2 entries
  • banco arenoso / arenáceo / arenisco noun (ridge of sand)
  • banco de arena noun (ridge of sand)

Swedish

1 entries
  • sandbank noun (ridge of sand)

Welsh

2 entries
  • banc tywod noun (ridge of sand)
  • traethell noun (ridge of sand)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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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.

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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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