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Example sentences for: pier

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As the double-decker boats get ready to leave the pier, bells ring, the gangplank is raised, deckhands in blue sailor suits man the hawsers, and a couple of hundred commuters begin a seven-minute sightseeing tour.
Now the pier has been lengthened to an impressive 440 m (nearly a quarter of a mile), and an octagonal pavilion lies at the far end.
Fishermen secure their catamarans and dinghies to the pier with thick coir ropes.
Oh, well, there's no way of avoiding the names: In my small clot of people dislodged swardward from the pier were Margaret Carlson, ICM agent Esther Newberg and her escort, newsman/artist John Johnson; illustrator/author/director Lane Smith; Buck Henry; Tony Schwartz; ???; ???; ???.
At Eloúnda you can explore the remains of Ólous, and Mátala has a port and harbor pier.