piers
Example Sentences
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Shaking from a quake could damage wharves, piers, buildings and roadway above the seawall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
But on either side stood empty piers whose planned allegorical statues by French had yet to be cast in bronze, much less installed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
But in 1982-83, when another super El Niño occurred, storms destroyed multiple piers and ripped away a 400-foot section of the Santa Monica Pier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Images on social media showed one of its supporting stone piers was leaning at an angle and part of the metalwork had twisted and fallen into the river.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
Broadside on, the punt struck gently against two of the piers and stopped, pinned squarely across the mouth of one of the central culverts.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
