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• n  a submerged bank of sand near a shore or in a river; can be exposed at low tide

• After 60 minutes' bombardment and no reply, four bedraggled Bulgars crept off the sandbank and sloshed across the river into the woods on the Communist side.
• For nearly 1,000 years, brave and able seamen have feared the Goodwin Sands, a ten-mile sandbank just north of Dover.
• Instead, they were sent to fill bags with cockles on a sandbank far from shore.

News & Articles

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• Bali Hai whispers in the wind of the sea, ‘Here am I, your special diner! Come to me, come to me!’
  At the northeastern tip of San Diego’s Shelter Island is a landmark restaurant that practically transports guests to the South Pacific islands. Bali Hai Restaurant – named for a famous show tune – opened in 1955 and was the first building in a newly constructed neighborhood that had previously been a mere sandbank in San Diego Bay.
  June 19, 2013 - La Jolla Light

Quotes

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• James Tomkins in Melbourne Herald Sun
  I was down at the beach Sunday,Tomkins said. "I was just bodysurfing and there was a sandbank and then there was a deep bit, so I swam about five strokes. That's been my training for it. Fitness will get me through."