wharves
Example Sentences
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The port, with the help of federal and provincial funds, is spending 609 million Canadian dollars dredging the river and building new wharves.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
The pier was one of several public wharves and piers in the state actively undergoing structural integrity upgrades.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2024
A neighborhood near the wharves is still known as the Irish Channel.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 15, 2024
China has been a major infrastructure lender to Vanuatu, donating the parliament building, stadiums and the prime minister's office, as well as constructing roads and wharves.
From Reuters • Aug. 16, 2023
However, the soldiers never carried them while loitering about alehouses and wharves, or the stables of the Afric Queen.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
