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    Use "wharf" in a sentence

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    wharf


    wharfs


    1. Half a dozen ducks splashed in the shallows near a small wharf that apparently served the glasshouses nearby … there was a boy sitting on the wharf fishing … he waved as they passed


    2. wharf appeared to have no provision for loading or


    3. As they were all herded away from the wharf to


    4. Captain Jones had worked his way up from the wharf to deckhand and then onto the merchant shipping line to eventually become a commissioned captain


    5. The wharf area was busy with goods and


    6. the wharf and had it transported to Saint Sebastien – he


    7. ‘They tried blockading the wharf and the roads, but


    8. The wharf covered nearly


    9. overflowing alehouse next to the wharf


    10. of the workmen and machines along the wharf

    11. top of Canary Wharf, and all around at least a


    12. landmark Canary Wharf Tower


    13. With all these dock and wharf


    14. Chapman lifted anchor and slowly sailed away from the wharf, while under the watchful eye


    15. The ship came alongside the wharf at Aramell without further incident


    16. It was a quick walk across the wharf, and with a curt nod, he walked past the guards and bolted up the gangplank onto the vessel


    17. The conspirators stood on a wharf on the far side of Water-Down’s port, quite a distance from the mooring spot of the Calamity


    18. “The icehouse on Fourth and Wharf Street


    19. Suddenly, the strange wharf on the edge of the marshlands started to buzz with activity as pirates ran hither and yon with ropes and chains


    20. Nearly an hour had gone past when Cruzel had accounted for all of his troops on the wharf side and had given them their instructions in no uncertain terms

    21. Once at the docks, the foot soldiers stood facing the Daferlim army, now consolidated and stronger by this, at the wharf side


    22. ” He grimaced as his head brushed the underside of the wharf


    23. As I stood on the wharf, I saw ships from the seven seas flying


    24. As we turned around and trotted down the wharf, he con-


    25. we were tied up at the wharf in Ketchikan


    26. my way to the wharf


    27. There were businesses and docks along a waterfront where before had only been a sprinkling of structures and one wharf, abandoned after repeated bombing attacks had left it in ruin


    28. Nevertheless, they had been collectively nervous approaching the fishermen’s wharf, half expecting to see a contingent of police – but there had been nobody


    29. Truman located, several blocks away, a wharf from which charter boats left early each morning, providing him with an entirely new fishing experience


    30. Boroszki emerged, crossed the deck and climbed onto the wharf with Colling

    31. The rest of their party brought their luggage on deck and transferred it onto the wharf


    32. His next stop was Canary Wharf … it was finally time to visit the family at the bank


    33. As further developments revealed themselves they were transferred to computers and outdoor screens to inform the mass of shocked drinkers in and around Canary Wharf


    34. After a good lunch, Roger went up to his favorite deck ten to contemplate the beauty of the city and the port, in particular Princess Wharf where the ship was berthed and where eighty percent of New Zealand’s imports and exports are


    35. They would head for the piers attached to the north-most wharf as soon as the Widder could be floated with the tide


    36. Bors would leave word at the wharf to expect the Widder first thing in the morning


    37. It was a bit embarrassing on the wharf at Ostend, and on arrival at Dover in front of laughing motorists to be pushed through the hold to the ramp so we could roll down, start with a bang and arrive in London exactly on time to return the van to Anthony


    38. I was intending to return to the mainland on Sunday – except when I arrived at the wharf: no ferries! God forbid


    39. It was a magical underwater tour, after which, as we walked back up the wharf, I


    40. Roger Cook and Bill Mason sat at their table in ‘Gastronomie,’ a smart and exclusive restaurant near the UVS head office in Canary Wharf

    41. In the slick corporate offices of UVS at Canary Wharf, Roger sat back in his chair and reflected on the conversation he had just had with Drew Durning


    42. The corporate head office of UVS at Canary Wharf was plush, with all the style and splash that projected success built on solid foundations


    43. Two days after their final meeting, Todd Snaithe stood outside the tall modern office block of UVS at Canary Wharf


    44. I made my way lithely and effortlessly over rocks and uneven ground to the place I had decided was a ford or wharf


    45. Some jumped into the shallow water and waded to the wharf or beach


    46. "Thanks for the help -- and the shoes,” cried the man as he stepped onto the wharf


    47. The sound of the drums grew louder as John rounded the last corner to the parking lot near the wharf


    48. John turned from his position on the wharf and started to walk back through the receding mist


    49. The docks were little more than a stone wharf with warehouses behind and a few cranes busy unloading barrels of stock and crates of fish off the incumbent ships


    50. seawater to milk, forcing the boat to crab sideways towards the wharf














































    1. As Dorro and Forgo’s vessel ventured forth from the harbor in the morning darkness, folks were already massing along wharfs and celebrating their good fortune


    2. Hoofs drummed down the street that sloped to the wharfs


    3. He swept out onto the wharfs and jerked the plunging stallion back on its haunches at the very lip of the pier


    4. On the wharfs the riders were shaking their swords and shouting threats and commands that the ship put about, and yelling for the bowmen to hasten before the craft was out of arbalest range


    5. So then, seeing they were all mad, I drew my sword and cleft the judge's skull; then I cut my way out of the court, and seeing the high constable's stallion tied near by, I rode for the wharfs, where I thought to find a ship bound for foreign parts


    6. Bêlit mocked at his superstitions and ordered the galley run inshore and tied to the crumbling wharfs


    7. Turning on his heel, the Cimmerian strode down the rotting wharfs and stepped aboard the galley


    8. They passed several obsolete Cloud Ships which were moored up alongside some of the abandoned wharfs, their masts and hulls battered from the many tens of thousands of nautical miles covered during their years in service


    9. From his beginnings on the wharfs of Vancouver's bustling docks he had always championed the common man


    10. In the olden days before the modern wharfs were built, a ship had to wait for hours for the full tide before it could get to the port

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    Synonyms for "wharf"

    dock pier wharf wharfage berth moor marina quay harbour jetty

    "wharf" definitions

    a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats


    provide with a wharf


    store on a wharf


    discharge at a wharf


    come into or dock at a wharf


    moor at a wharf