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
It was a place transformed, with railroads and wharves running at capacity.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2025
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
As Nat shouldered his way through the crowded wharves he heard talk of Russia and France and Spain, of Bombay and Calcutta.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
