| 释义 |
sandbanksand‧bank /ˈsændbæŋk/ noun [countable]   - A small lagoon is formed by the stream between a sandbank and the rock wall.
- As soon as she released the stick, he shot off, following its long, curving flight out on to the sandbanks.
- Male speaker I was dragged along a sandbank, but it was still good.
- Rockling, dabs, odd flounder and school bass at night over the sandbanks at Llandanwg.
- Rodley sighted a sandbank awash ahead.
- Their frayed bodies lie rotting in drifts on the surface of the streams and are washed up in piles on the sandbanks.
- Wading birds collect great quantities of small molluscs from sandbanks and mud flats when the tide retreats.
- When the tide turns, the birds are forced off the sandbanks and gather on the saltmarshes.
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