How to Use wharf in a Sentence

wharf

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  • Spectators watched the group dash through the first deck and the wharf.
    — Carrie Hagen, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The Ocean Beach pier opened in the mid-1960s, and is now the second-longest wharf on the West Coast.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Dec. 2021
  • There were no trees in sight at the wharf to offer any shade.
    — Elinda Labropoulou, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • There’s nowhere to shop, except for lobsters at the wharves.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2019
  • In June, the wharf was stacked high with lobster traps tinging the breeze with the faint reek of their latest catch.
    — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The passengers had to pull themselves up a long ladder to reach the top of the wharf.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2020
  • As the steamer Ancon pulled away from the wharf, the man casting the lines failed to secure those tied to the stern.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Just up the coast, the popular wharf in the town of Capitola was split in half by a wave.
    — Abigail Barronian, Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2023
  • In January, large waves and high tides destroyed parts of the town’s wharf.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • In the 1840s, the banks would have been crowded with wharves, the nearby Navy Yard bustling with industry.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • It was pulled on to the wharf of Waterside and stuffed into a giant bag.
    — Gordon Rago, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Some years later a new stage moved the music closer to the wharf where the Mayflower II ties up.
    — Robert Knox, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2022
  • But by the 1970s, an uptick in drugs and guns prompted hillside residents to push for an end to the free-for-all on the wharf.
    — Rachel Scheier, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Many tourists rushing through Bergen take a quick snap of the iconic Bryggen wharf buildings and move on.
    — David Nikel, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Police said they had been told the woman was swimming off the wharf when the shark attacked her.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • It will be located on the site of the old wharf where slave ships unloaded.
    — Time, 20 June 2018
  • The wharf shed washed away a few times, but it was always rebuilt by the townspeople.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Within view was the wharf at which Kader arrived in 2019.
    — Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The restaurant is located on the wharf, near the hotels, shopping and cruise ships.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • Eating lunch while watching the waves from Longboard’s Grill on the wharf was a close second.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 17 June 2021
  • The Bennington at the time of the accident was lying in the stream just off the Commercial wharf at the foot of H Street.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 July 2019
  • The river's navigation channel is about 200 feet deep in the area near the wharf.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The city’s rat is a Rattus norvegicus, also known as the brown rat, wharf rat, or sewer rat.
    — Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 27 July 2023
  • Base spokesman Drew Verbis said the wharf is typically used by the Navy to tie up war ships.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2021
  • After reaching the wharf, Zuma learned that Red had taken out the Great Shirley.
    — Henry Chandonnet, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
  • In 2017, the wharf clinched a spot on the National Register of Historic Places.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 8 June 2023
  • The line ran from Providence to the steamboat wharf in Stonington in 1832.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 6 July 2018
  • Byrne stood outside the theatre, on the Sydney Harbour wharf.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 12 June 2021
  • Meiggs’ Wharf became less and less of a wharf, thanks to landfill that moved inexorably north.
    — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2021
  • In the aftermath of the blaze, McLane led recovery efforts, pushing for the widening of streets and the city purchase of the wharf.
    — Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 24 Nov. 2020

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