waterfront
Example Sentences
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“It looks very shortsighted to me,” said Mark Green as he fed scraps of stale bread to a group of swans gliding along Christchurch’s waterfront.
Back in Finland, Helsinki Shipyard occupies a dock on the capital's waterfront.
From BBC
"It sits above Roman waterfronts so that road effectively protects a whole massive swathe of wonderful archaeology - and that would be early Roman waterfronts, medieval buildings, everything," she says.
From BBC
The operation is the latest of a campaign to remove what authorities in Nigeria's commercial capital describe as illegal structures and, critics say, reclaim waterfront land for real-estate development.
From Barron's
In recent years, the city successfully sued the state to recoup millions of dollars in redevelopment agency loan money from a waterfront development and an affordable senior housing project.
From Los Angeles Times
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