Goodwin Sands

[ good-win ]

noun

1. a line of shoals at the N entrance to the Strait of Dover, off the SE coast of England. 10 miles (16 km) long.

Goodwin Sands

/ ˈɡʊdwɪn /

plural noun

1. a dangerous stretch of shoals at the entrance to the Strait of Dover: separated from the E coast of Kent by the Downs roadstead

Example Sentences

We should be getting near the floating lights of the Goodwin sands by this time.

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When it is rough thereabouts at the Goodwin Sands, the life–boat men must stand watch all the time.

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The crew ran her on the Goodwin Sands on her trial trip, and there she stuck for a year.

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Jane says she hopes you stuck on the Goodwin Sands, and that the sailors frightened you a little.

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The red lights of the Goodwin Sands dwindled before the pure, far-reaching radiance into mere floating sparks of fire.

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