jetty

Example Sentences

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At the dimly lit town market, a few hundred metres from the jetty, the stalls are still well stocked with fish, shrimp and blue crabs.

From Barron's • Mar. 18, 2026

Further down the beach, Kostya is fishing on a jetty stretching out into the sea.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

“He’s been out on that ocean, on that jetty thousands of times,” Vince said.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025

Just as we pulled out from the harbour, the boat lurched and suddenly the jetty next to where we had boarded crumpled and fell into the sea.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2024

Occasionally we would go out to Rockaway Beach, and he would fish off a jetty.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers