How to Use wharf in a Sentence

wharf

noun

• The pier age Next comes the pier, big brother to the wharf.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
• 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
• One thing missing now from the old wharf: the buildings.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
• Reg goes to a bar by the wharf, where Pete has arranged to meet him.
  — Rachel Kushner, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
• 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
• From the icehouse to the auction house, a pall hangs over the fabled wharves in New Bedford.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2018
• 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
• The rats in the Queen City are Norway rats, also called a sewer or wharf rat.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 23 Feb. 2018
• The event started that morning along the downtown wharves.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2024
• Time, perhaps, for Australia to build a few nice, long wharves.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• 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
• The adorable animal came up to the edge of the wharf, and the family started feeding it.
  — Kalila Morsink, Smithsonian, 30 June 2017
• 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
• The cove was eventually filled in and on that land, a shipwright built a wharf.
  — Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
• 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
• The wharf stood a few miles from Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War had been fired just a little more than a year before.
  — Cate Lineberry, Smithsonian, 13 June 2017
• Within view was the wharf at which Kader arrived in 2019.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
• As work progressed down the wharf, only two berths were available, causing longer wait times for vessels.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 2 July 2024
• The pier, first built in 1872 as a private commercial wharf, has been repaired or rebuilt countless times throughout its history.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024