SANDBANK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sandbank mean? 

• SANDBANK (noun)
  The noun SANDBANK has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SANDBANK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SANDBANK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("sandbank" is a kind of...):

bank (a long ridge or pile)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sandbank"):

shoal (a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide)

 Context examples 

To have my beautiful Culloden laid on a sandbank just out of gunshot.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Once upon a yellow sandbank I saw a creature like a huge swan, with a clumsy body and a high, flexible neck, shuffling about upon the margin.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was shallow, for in many places I saw low sandbanks protruding above the water.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The unfortunate delay can be apportioned between a blundering pilot and an intrusive sandbank.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This lake may have been ten miles in circumference, and lay very green and beautiful in the evening light, with a thick fringe of reeds at its edges, and with its surface broken by several yellow sandbanks, which gleamed golden in the mellow sunshine.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)