Sand bar: accretionary deposit of sand formed across a river mouth or bay by wave action and joined to the shore at both ends.

UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

The Water Taxi Beach, a bar with real sand and volleyball courts, serves up drinks and snacks, as well as spectacular views over to Ellis Island and Manhattan.

BBC: An urban oasis off the coast of New York City

Woodland, a Manhattan Project scientist, came up with the idea for bar codes while running his fingers through the sand, trying to figure out how to put a unique code on every item of merchandise that could be easily scanned by a mechanical device.

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Bar: fully or partially submerged mound of sand, gravel or other unconsolidated material built on the sea-bottom in shallow water by waves and currents.

UNESCO: L O S S A R Y

But the notion that somehow we have succeeded as a consequence of the recent reductions in violence means that we have set the bar so low it's buried in the sand at this point.

CNN: Transcript of Thursday's Democratic presidential debate

There's a bar and a restaurant where the road ends and the sand begins.

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