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Keep "sandbank" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
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6 total sentences available.
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)
Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.
Closest matches include ait, archipelago, atoll, bank, bar.
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