How to Use jetty in a Sentence

jetty

noun

• Keep off of jetties, rocks and logs near the surf zone.
  — oregonlive, 20 Feb. 2023
• Meet near the small jetty, right off Palm Avenue (north of the pier).
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
• Port O’Connor — Redfish are good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs.
  — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2018
• One of my best pals back then was a kid who lived up the street from us, closer to the jetty.
  — Corky Carroll, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• Galveston - Sheepshead are good at the jetty on shrimp.
  — Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018
• Fish from the jetties just past where the waves are breaking for best results.
  — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 July 2018
• Folks working the jetties and piers for crabs found a few Dungeness and rock crabs.
  — sacbee, 20 Mar. 2018
• The house has 340 feet of frontage on Long Island Sound, with a stone jetty and deep-water dock.
  — Sarah Paynter, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2021
• When the sky cleared, the survivors trudged through a thick layer of ash to get to the small inflatable docked on the jetty.
  — Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 13 July 2023
• The men from the ship had jumped into the water and climbed onto the jetty, according to the Coast Guard.
  — oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2019
• The trail goes past the Quivira Jetty fishing parking lot and nearly to the end of the jetty.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
• Some of the shoreline shell piles are solid enough that they’re used as jetties or boat docks.
  — Patrick Whittle, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
• In the last story, a woman sits on a beach watching her sons play on a jetty.
  — Ann Levin, Star Tribune, 2 Nov. 2020
• The gods’ barks were brought alongside the jetty at the Temple of Luxor and were carried on the shoulders of the priests to the sacred precinct.
  — National Geographic, 25 June 2019
• Standing on the jetty, the Jeong and the other activists watch the last bottles drift slowly out of sight.
  — Ivan Watson, Jungeun Kim, Stella Ko and Jo Shelley, CNN, 17 May 2018
• This is a small beach with a jetty for saltwater fishing, among the best around.
  — Caryn B. Davis, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• Its most notable feature is the 130-foot jetty that leads into the ocean.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023
• Try live shrimp near the jetties for mangrove snapper, black drum, redfish and a snook or two.
  — Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 July 2018
• The Army Corps of Engineers arrived in the 1860s, too, to dredge a shipping channel and build canals, jetties, and dams.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• The jetties have splintered under the assault of the dozens of cyclones and storms that roll in off the Bay of Bengal every year.
  — Alex Perry, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
• The mansions along the coast sport jetties to allow access to the superyachts anchored in the azure blue bay.
  — Dana Thomas, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2020
• Outside, guests can relax and take a dip in the lake from their own private garden and jetty.
  — Duncan Madden, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• At Rockaway, the dance will begin with a prologue as the performers start out on a rocky jetty and make their way down to the sand.
  — Gia Kourlas Amir Hamja, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The waves are generally calm, as the beach is protected by the jetty on the other side of the channel.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2023
• The group splits into two teams, and one heads for the stone jetty where Chamberland dove the previous evening.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, Discover Magazine, 12 Oct. 2018
• The ship struck shore near the jetty, the impact so great that three of its four masts snapped immediately.
  — OregonLive.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• Less than a year after her launch, the Selma struck a jetty in Mexico, making a 60-foot hole in the hull.
  — Kelly Kazek | [e-mail], al, 20 Feb. 2020
• The harbor has a long jetty built out into the ocean that restricts the natural flow of sand in the ocean current from north to south.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
• The aid is being delivered as work continues on a jetty along the coast.
  — NBC News, 15 Mar. 2024
• The team solved the problem by creating inflatable jetties, filled with air and water, that formed a walkway around the building and lifted it back up.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024