Skirting the northern edge of the island without seeing anything to mar the mirror-like surface of the starlit sea, I was first at the sandspit rendezvous by a good half-hour.
Grey slipped off silently, doubling the sandspit point of the island in order to have the unmenaced north beach for his speedway.
The dash through the wood from our observation point at the heel of the eastern sandspit seemed to me the hottest sprint I had ever made.
Following the regular sentry-go routine, Sanford and I parted at the camp; he was to take the south beach and I the north, and we were to meet at the sandspit in which the island terminated to the eastward.
But over the low sandspit a sudden cloud of black smoke floated upward, showing that the captain had taken up the chase.
One minute passed, another; then the tug stuck her blunt nose around the sandspit and headed after the Vagabond.
Next morning, after spending the night on the Sandspit with madam, I called, bright and early, upon my Swedish friends in their restaurant.
By six o'clock that afternoon a part of madam's baggage and freight was found, hauled by dog-team through town to the Sandspit and deposited upon the ground.
Most of those on the Sandspit were obliged to flee for their lives.
We found great difficulty in reserving ground space enough for another tent, as others found the Sandspit as desirable for tenting as we did, and elbowed us closely.
From thesandspit the way led out through the Golden Gate to the vastness of adventure of all the world, where battles would be fought, not for old shirts and over stolen salmon boats, but for high purposes and romantic ends.
Also, he had been drinking in the St. Louis House, so that it was John Barleycorn who led him to the sandspit in quest of his old shirt.
They had already passed the neck of the sandspit where it was lowest.
The castaways slowly drifting towards the sandspit are alone.
The sandspit did not project perpendicularly from the line of the coast, but in a diagonal direction.
Morning would see all snow-hidden, including the huts of the four remaining natives on the sandspitbetween the river and the sea.
From this point the land slopes down to Elson Bay, a shallow body of water inclosed by the sandspit which forms Point Barrow.
The tents on the sandspitat Plover Bay all face west.
The tents are pitched just in the bend of Elson Bay, and north of them is a narrow place in the sandspit over which the ducks often pass.
Off this coast and ninety miles out at sea to the southward is the dreaded Sable Island, a long and narrow sandspit without trees, producing nothing but salt grass and cranberries.
A view to the front shows the wharves, and across the bay the narrow sandspit protecting the harbor, while on the right hand is the long ridge of Manomet, and over the water to the left appear distant sand-dunes along Duxbury Beach.
Here, scarce a quarter-century ago, a sandspit had broiled beneath an untempered sun.
Claire roused herself, from a gloomy reverie, enough to shift the course of the craft and to head it for the dim-seen sandspit that was backed by the ebony darkness of the mangrove swamp.
Blobs of light are cast off from her bows as she rounds the familiar sandspitand glides to her moorings.
We then doubled a long sandspit running out to sea eastward, and forming, on the north, a deep bay well protected from the souther; whilst several lines of reef and shallow to the north defend it from the angry Bora.
The statio malefida is defended to the north by a short sandspit and a submerged reef; and southwards by a projection of sandstone conglomerate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sandspit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bill; breakwater; delta; head; headland; hook; peninsula; point; promontory; reef; spit; spur; tongue
