The sandbar itself snugs in against the cliffside with greenery growing in three distinct tiers.
One wild storm upstream and you, the ants, and the sandbar are all washed away forever.
A walk along a sandbar will show you that the river functions as a practical sorting machine.
On a sandbarstands a spotted sandpiper, head low and tail high.
All things vanished for a while, and when he next paid attention the sandbar was very quiet and farther off than ever.
There, on the line from the sandbar north of the town to Haynes Bluff, they joined the provisional division of Stephen D.
After a while life and the content of life went to a very great distance—very far off and small like a sandbar in a distant ocean.
He had heard of it from the old Droll Tellers, and loved to lie on the sandbar meditating, dreaming of the things that had happened there centuries before.
He knew the Phoenicians had sailed over that sandbar with their ships and the Danish freebooters in later times.
There he stood, stretched out his hand backward, and had in it a stick of sandbar willow, a forearm long.
He still had his stick of sandbar willow with which he had made the river.
In the middle, between the first and second lines, they set a stick of sandbar willow.
You will be among the cottonwoods and the sandbar willows.
It was because there was a long sandbar reached out from the shore there; if not he would have been drowned.
It was all trees except a strip of sand on each side, and in low water there used to be a sandbar below it.
Pearl River in Louisiana on an open sandbar (not in gravel, fine sand or silt), whereas nests of Graptemys were confined to the landward margin of the sandbar.
Farther up this western coast of Greece, the island of Leukas has been converted into a peninsula by a sickle-shaped sandbar extending across the narrow channel.
The chart gave the bottom on the sandbar in front of the entrance as shell and hard sand.
Still five hundred yards from the sandbar which must be crossed, there was a jar, a moaning, grinding sound, and the motors went instantly dead.
To add to the peril of the crossing, the sandbar was strewn with tangles of undergrowth and fallen trees, and the Confederate shells and bullets were raining upon the ground.
Another storming party attempted to assail the Confederates from across a sandbar of the bayou, but was halted at the sight and prospect of overcoming a fifteen-foot bank on the farther side.
Dawn was breaking in the sky when they came out of the swamp, and the first flush of the sun was lighting up the east when Breault headed his improvised craft for the sandbar upon which Nada and McKay had rested many hours before.
He began watching the shore closely, and it was not long before he made out the white smoothness of a sandbar on their right.
All the wagons but one had been ferried over, and this last one had been driven down on the sandbar near the ferry landing, waiting for the boat’s return, while two pieces of artillery were standing near by on the sandbar.
He went on guard duty immediately afterward, and lay down on a sandbar to cool.
Encamping on a sandbar opposite the village, Sergeant Ordway and Cruzatte were dispatched to summon the chiefs.
This ought to be the sandbar to the left of the Island Park ferry landing if he had not gone out of his reckoning.
If this were the sandbar he would have to skirt it east to the cut that ran in beside the Yacht Club.
When we reached Green River we rounded the cattle upon a sandbar and forced them all into the water at once.
By two o'clock next day we had everything across the river at St. Joe and the cattle herded on a sandbar above where Elwood now stands.
The older men drew together for a serious discussion that ended in granting Oomah's request, and Tupi was selected to go back to the encampment on the sandbar to be an honored guest and to select a wife.
The people silently went to their shelters of palm-leaves dotting the sandbar that extended far out into the river.
It was only when the man laid a trap for him by making a wide detour on the sandbar that Warruk discovered that it was he who was being sought by the lone wanderer.
It was night, but a full moon, and the myriads of stars, beaming and twinkling in the glorious tropical sky, shed a mellow light on the sandbar where the last of the turtles were escaping from their prison shells.
The sandbar with its varied population was submerged in a flash and as the air imprisoned in the wide cracks and crevices of the sun-baked surface rushed up toward freedom, the water seethed and boiled like the contents of a gigantic cauldron.
As Kamuka pointed, Biff saw a huge anaconda lazily sunning itself on a sandbar near the canal bank.
Snakes as well as shallows had been avoided, when Nara's boat ran on a hidden sandbar that the others had crossed.
The tide being still high, the ship was carried well upon the sandbar before it grounded, lolling over to one side much like the sleeping sailors.
Now sir, the sandbar being just below and ahead of the Venture, once the Mirabelle has slipped by, wouldn't it be too bad if something happened to make the Venture drift with the tide and run aground?
The bottom was sand and coral, and shoaled rapidly, until at the mouth we found a sandbar that almost dried at low tide.
After exploring the neighbourhood, we found a good patch of flat jungle on the east shore of the bay, and near the sandbar across the mouth discovered a faint path leading inward.
There was very little current, owing to a sandbar across the mouth, which the natives say is dry at half-tide.
Ricaras in the fall 1804 and encamped on a Sandbar from the N.
Pond Containg Beever, & fowl, a bad Sandbar on the S.
I can't see the sandbar yet," he told his companion.
We ought to get some geese," the Indian suggested, and one evening as they were watching the flight of a long line of great honking geese, they saw two or three hundred of them settle on a long sandbar a mile below their camp.
The sandbar where their wrecked launch lay was out in the middle of the Congo, perhaps eight miles from the park-like lands which stretched indefinitely beyond either bank.
The beach was impassable; here was no wide and easy road to the east, such as he had thought to find; to gain the sandbar he had now to thread a tortuous and uncertain way through the bewildering dunes.
We encamped on a sandbar making out from the upper end of this island; our journey to-day being twelve miles.
Four miles beyond is another sandbar terminated by a small willow island, and forming a very considerable bend in the river towards the north.
We coasted along this island, which we called Caution island, and after passing a small creek on the south encamped on a sandbar in the middle of the river, having made twelve miles.
One and a half miles above the island is a large sandbar in the middle of the river, beyond which we stopped to refresh the men, who suffered very much from the heat.
Passing near the southern shore, the bank fell in so fast as to oblige us to cross the river instantly, between the northern side and a sandbar which is constantly moving and banking with the violence of the current.
Between four and five miles we passed a large island in a deep bend to the north, and a large sandbar at the upper point.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sandbar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
