WHARF in a Sentence
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20 example sentences for WHARF, such as:
1. There is a fierce eddy between the wharf and the house.
2. A landing platform attached to a wharf and floating on the water.
3. Named port unfamiliar advice what facilities there including wharf side draught.
4. One afternoon, late in the month of February, I came ashore at the wharf at dusk.
5. It was a bright, tranquil evening when the boat stopped at the wharf at Louisville.
2. A landing platform attached to a wharf and floating on the water.
3. Named port unfamiliar advice what facilities there including wharf side draught.
4. One afternoon, late in the month of February, I came ashore at the wharf at dusk.
5. It was a bright, tranquil evening when the boat stopped at the wharf at Louisville.
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Meanings and Examples of WHARF
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wharf
v. discharge at a wharf
v. provide with a wharf
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 And now the time of tide has come; the ship casts off her cables; and from the deserted wharf the uncheered ship for Tarshish, all careening, glides to sea.
2 We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to "the Moss," the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the wharf.
3 It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf.
4 The following morning Mr. Pontellier was up in good time to take the rockaway which was to convey him to the steamer at the wharf.
5 Robert uttered a shrill, piercing whistle which might have been heard back at the wharf.
6 The lovers, who had laid their plans the night before, were already strolling toward the wharf.
7 I walked up from the wharf," she said, "and heard the hammering.
8 I went one day down on the wharf of Mr. Waters; and seeing two Irishmen unloading a scow of stone, I went, unasked, and helped them.
9 It was a bright, tranquil evening when the boat stopped at the wharf at Louisville.
10 The man took the bundle carefully, and was soon lost in the crowd that went up the wharf.
11 When the boat, creaking, and groaning, and puffing, had loosed from the wharf, and was beginning slowly to strain herself along, the woman returned to her old seat.
12 One afternoon, late in the month of February, I came ashore at the wharf at dusk.
13 It was a crazy old house with a wharf of its own, abutting on the water when the tide was in, and on the mud when the tide was out, and literally overrun with rats.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 11. I BEGIN LIFE ON MY OWN ACCOUNT, AND DON'T LIK...
14 Between the wharf and the bedroom window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
Context Highlight In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
15 There is a fierce eddy between the wharf and the house.
Example Sentence:
1 A landing platform attached to a wharf and floating on the water.
2 Named port unfamiliar advice what facilities there including wharf side draught.