wharves

Example Sentences

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Wharves board trustees differed slightly in visions for the future.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2018

The progress was threatened in 2007 when the Galveston Wharves board entered into an agreement with the Houston Port Authority that envisioned removing Seawolf Park to make way for a container port.

From Washington Times • Sep. 11, 2016

In the 1920s, and well into the '90s, it was known as the Harbor Wharves for its blue-collar laborers unloading catches of fish.

From US News • Jan. 14, 2016

Last week the Cacuta lay at Philadelphia's South Wharves, awaiting $25,000 worth of overhauling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wharves stacked with lumber, railroad track, clustering roofs, smoking mills, were flitting fast astern.

From Vane of the Timberlands by Bindloss, Harold