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

Appropriately Angers, with its "Chateau of the King of Poland" and along the Maine its "Wharves of the King of Poland," was chosen by the French Cabinet to serve as the expatriate "Capital of Poland."

From Time Magazine Archive

Wharves, docks, and warehouses are in course of construction, and can hardly be finished fast enough to meet the demand for their use.

From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Ballou, Maturin Murray