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 state’s first wharves were built in the 1800s, and tended to be modest, private endeavors meant to facilitate shipping minerals and metals such as silver and asphaltum up and down the coast.

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

“The waves came up under the wharves, picked them up and dropped them somewhere else,” Ms. Coombs said.

From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024

I looked around me—no houses, no ships, no wharves.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson