s sa sb sc sd se sf sg sh si sj sk sl sm sn so sp sq sr ss st su sv sw sy

Перевод: sandbank

[существительное]
отмель ; песчаная отмель; банка (отмель)

Тезаурус:

1. Bob Smith and David Brand from HMS United got inshore on their first night's recce to find a long and uncharted sandbank off the south coast port of Gela, where the Rangers would land that summer.
2. That night we were stuck on a sandbank in the middle of the river, and a small Chindwin paddle steamer came along to take us oft until the tide rose again.
3. Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off.
4. As I cross the Elizabeth Bridge on my way to the National Museum, three optimistic fishermen are casting lines from a small sandbank.
5. These lost lands are named on old charts as "Sunke Sands" and it must have been a logical progression to name the risen sandbank "Sunk Sand Island", eventually over the centuries to be shortened to today's Sunk Island.
6. It is hard to believe that this 8,000 acre agricultural estate owned by the Crown was once a small mid-river sandbank often submerged by spring tides.
7. He made a clean take-off, skidded down the face, and tracked the wave into the hazardous zone known as the "Bermuda triangle", somersaulting as his board stalled on the sandbank.
8. While the steamer was on the sandbank HE and I and one or two others went ashore and spent an hour in a village on the bank.
9. Our pilot was said to be the best on the river, but every now and then there was a shudder as we touched a sandbank; and there was so little water coming down from Aswan that we only squeezed through the lock at Nag Hammadi by all the passengers crowding into the bows of the Nefertari, while her crew hauled on ropes, chanting a shanty that might have been sung on the sunboats of the pharaohs.
10. Talk turns to the night before when we were woken as the convoy hit a sandbank with such force that the steel cables holding it together were torn loose.
11. In 1983 it sold the contents of a Spanish galleon which went down off Cartagena carrying uncut emeralds and gold, and in 1988 homely spades, belaying pins and scrubbing brushes from HMS Invincible, a Royal Navy warship which foundered on a sandbank.
12. A few days later the Troop were shown aerial photographs of five tugs towing the sinking ship towards a sandbank, where she settled with her cargo of 5,000 tons of copper.
13. A sandbank at the bottom of a steeper incline provides a safe stopping place for bikes and scooters.