Definition of "sandbar" []

• A ridge of sand formed in a river or along a shore by the action of waves or currents. (noun)

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• ""I suppose you know where every hidden rock and sunken tree and sandbar is in this river?""
• "Having -- but what they didn ` t know is they bumped into a kind of false sandbar, which is actually notorious in Amagansett."
• "Similar to the plunder of limestone in the Jaffna Peninsula, agents of Colombo are now engaged in scooping the sand dunes of the Ma'n'niththalai sandbar, which is of immense natural beauty and of archaeological as well as tourist potentiality, sources in Poonakari said."