What is another word for sandbanks?

Pronunciation: [sˈandbaŋks] (IPA)

Sandbanks refer to areas of land or ground consisting of or covered with sand. Synonyms for the word include sandbars, shoals, beaches, dunes, ridges, and banks. Sandbars typically refer to a long narrow ridge of sand or gravel lying submerged or partially exposed near the shore, while shoals refer to a broad area of shallow water in a river or sea. Beaches are popularly known as sandy shores along the edge of a body of water and can stretch for miles. Dunes refer to hills of sand formed by the wind, while ridges are raised strips of land that may also consist of sand. Lastly, banks refer to a raised area or mound of earth consisting or covered with sand.

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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Sandbanks

  • Between the crowded houses of Gravesend and the monstrous red-brick pile on the Essex shore the ship is surrendered fairly to the grasp of the river. That hint of loneliness, that soul of the sea which had accompanied her as far as the Lower Hope Reach, abandons her at the turn of the first bend above. The salt, acrid flavour is gone out of the air, together with a sense of unlimited space opening free beyond the threshold of sandbanks below the Nore. The waters of the sea rush on past Gravesend, tumbling the big mooring buoys laid along the face of the town; but the sea-freedom stops short there, surrendering the salt tide to the needs, the artifices, the contrivances of toiling men. Wharves, landing-places, dock-gates, waterside stairs, follow each other continuously right up to London Bridge, and the hum of men’s work fills the river with a menacing, muttering note as of a breathless, ever-driving gale. The water-way, so fair above and wide below, flows oppressed by bricks and mortar and stone, by blackened timber and grimed glass and rusty iron, covered with black barges, whipped up by paddles and screws, overburdened with craft, overhung with chains, overshadowed by walls making a steep gorge for its bed, filled with a haze of smoke and dust.
    Joseph Conrad
  • When swept out of its normal channel, life scatters into innumerable streams. It is difficult to foresee which it will take in its treacherous and winding course. Where to-day it flows in shallows, like a rivulet over sandbanks, so shallow that the shoals are visible, to-morrow it will flow richly and fully.
    Mikhail Sholokhov

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