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Meanings of
sandspit
in English
Russian
коса
Portuguese
cordão litoral
Spanish
cordón litoral
Catalan
cordó litoral
Back to the meaning
Coastal bar or beach landform deposited by longshore drift.
spit
Russian
коса
Synonyms
Examples for "
spit
"
spit
Examples for "
spit
"
1
Sarge fit, although he didn't look capable of any
spit
-
flecked
rants today.
2
New figures also show gardaí are continuing to use
spit
-
hoods
on suspects.
3
Our ancestors used not to chew and
spit
it everywhere unlike today.
4
About 40 acres have been lost from the
spit
as a result.
5
A single
spit
was heard; bodies crashed to a floor somewhere below.
Usage of
sandspit
in English
1
They had already passed the neck of the
sandspit
where it was lowest.
2
They knew that they were following the crest of the
sandspit
.
3
So the Reindeer, crewless, lay across the estuary at the
sandspit
.
4
That
sandspit
's
now gone and we're backing straight on to Tasman Bay now.
5
Here, scarce a quarter-century ago, a
sandspit
had broiled beneath an untempered sun.
6
The ship appears to be lodged hard and fast on a reef or
sandspit
.
7
The castaways slowly drifting towards the
sandspit
are alone.
8
They enjoyed riding their horses along the beach, which was part of a dynamic
sandspit
.
9
We haven't gone far before Gustavo heads us in to a
sandspit
and moors up.
10
The
sandspit
was full three miles in length.
11
It was like their abandoning him upon the
sandspit
,
to the threatening engulfment of the tide.
12
The
sandspit
did not project perpendicularly from the line of the coast, but in a diagonal direction.
13
The outfits were piled on a
sandspit
about a mile below the trading posts of Healy and Wilson.
14
The old sailor must be abandoned to his fate, just as he had been left upon the
sandspit
.
15
It was Mrs. Travers who saw first the faint gleam of the uncovered
sandspit
on the black, quiet water.
16
Blobs of light are cast off from her bows as she rounds the familiar
sandspit
and glides to her moorings.
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Grammar, pronunciation and more
About this term
sandspit
Noun
Singular
Frequent collocations
dynamic sandspit
familiar sandspit
uncovered sandspit
Translations for
sandspit
Russian
коса
Portuguese
cordão litoral
lido
Spanish
cordón litoral
cordon litoral
Catalan
cordó litoral
Sandspit
through the time