sandbanks in English

noun
1
a deposit of sand forming a shallow area in the sea or a river.
Shoal water is an area made shallow by a sandbank or sandbar.

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1. The rocks and sandbanks make the river hard to navigate.

2. Ahoy features views of the sea is 3.1 mi from Sandbanks

3. Rockling, dabs, odd flounder and school bass at night over the sandbanks at Llandanwg.

4. He must also skirt any sandbanks, rocks, or wrecks hidden underneath the water.

5. Pilots advise ship captains to give sandbanks that stretch beneath the waters a wide berth.

6. 4 Between the listing buoys and sandbanks two mulish tugs were pulling a tanker loaded with glass from Pilkington's.

7. Still, the ship was in danger of being driven southward until it would crash on the sandbanks off the coast of Africa.

8. Sandbanks have appeared, navigation has slowed, fishermen complain of derisory catches, and the 60m people whose livelihoods directly or indirectly depend on the river are worried.

9. These 2,500 square kilometres of river frontage, islands, sandbanks and pools, flanked by forests of mahogany, wild figs, ebonies and baobabs, is one of the least developed national parks in Southern Africa.

10. Wasaga Beach, Long Point, Point Pelee, Presqu'ile, Sandbanks and Toronto Islands are just some of the sand accumulations that exist only because of erosion, which provides sand from other locations along the shore.

11. Canna (Scottish Gaelic: Canaigh; Eilean Chanaigh; Scots: Canna) is the westernmost of the Small Isles archipelago, in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.It is linked to the neighbouring island of Sanday by a road and sandbanks at low tide.The island is 4.3 miles (6.9 km) long and 1 mile (1.6 km) wide