1.   I wondered if the kingfisher still nested in the sandy banks there.

2.   He glanced around and noticed a hole in the sandy bank a few yards away.

3.   Families have cookouts on its sandy banks while children jump from rock to rock, ignoring the beer cans and broken glass that hide in the deep crevasses.

4.   The Chilean site, known as Monte Verde, is on the sandy banks of a creek in wooded hills near the Pacific Ocean.

5.   The ranch got its name from caves that the first settlers dug in the sandy banks of Indian Creek for shelter from the scorching summer sun and winter snow.

6.   The sandy banks are littered with oil drums and the bomb-blasted metal of what appears to be an oil-well tap.

7.   We have room to launch only one canoe at a time, so we plan to meet on a sandy bank on the other side of the river.

8.   Elmer Roberto Chinchilla, a lawyer, climbed slowly up the sandy bank, limping from a scorpion bite.

9.   Hundreds of thousands of tents have sprung up along the sandy banks of the Ganges.

10.   With its Spanish moss-draped cypress trees and sandy banks, the river attracts hordes of canoeists, anglers and nature lovers.