English example sentences with "sandbank"

When she came back she had hundreds of things to tell them, but the most delightful of all, she said, was to lie in the moonlight, on a sandbank in a calm sea, and to gaze at the large town close to the shore, where the lights twinkled like hundreds of stars; to listen to music and the noise and bustle of carriages and people, to see the many church towers and spires, and to hear the bells ringing.
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Saltwater crocodiles are thought to pose little danger to the whales unless the humpbacks become stranded on a sandbank.
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The ship is stranded on a sandbank.
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The ship has run into a sandbank offshore.
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The ship ran into a sandbank offshore.
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The ship hit a sandbank.
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