Definition of "sandbank" [sandbank]

• A ridge of sand forming a mound, shoal, or hillside. (noun)

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• "Grainger saw that on the sandbank were a number of dead fish which had been swept down the creek from pools higher up."
• "Perched upon a sandbank was a regiment of enormous white pelicans of thoughtful and sage-like physiognomy, ranged in a row, as if to watch how we passed the bar."
• "The Lewis Chessmen, found in a sandbank in 1831 on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's chilly Outer Hebrides, remain a mystery."