pier

Example Sentences

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The pier was widely viewed as a failure: It repeatedly broke apart due to bad weather, was operational for only 20 days and cost $230 million.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

When he’s not spreading his love of Reese’s, he spends weekday afternoons singing Rolling Stones songs on karaoke machines in bars near the pier.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026

Here's me, at the end of a pier in Dorset in the summer.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026

They could have been hanging at the pier or playing video games.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026

I walk down the stairs, drawing my hand lightly along a railing to avoid slivers, and walk out to the end of the pier.

From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt