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sandbar

沙洲,沙洲岛,沙坝,沙洲区

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a bar of sand formed in a river or sea by the action of tides or currents.

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Examples

  • You can lunch on a two-mile-long sandbar and play tennis on the courts.

  • One of the sailors had seen a sandbar and a low line of land.

  • Here we struck on a sandbar with such force of steam and current as to land us almost out of the water from stem to midships.

  • Luckily it grounded on a sandbar, and burned and crackled away harmlessly until it was consumed.

  • We recovered the running gear of the wagon later when all came upon a sandbar, but the harness had been stolen.

  • She's no fool, and she can see the sense of gettin' over a sandbar at high tide jes as well as you can.'