How to Use wharf in a Sentence

wharf

noun
  • There were no trees in sight at the wharf to offer any shade.
    — Elinda Labropoulou, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The father wanted nets and the smell of the wharf.
    — Anthony Scaramucci, Fortune, 28 June 2026
  • Spectators watched the group dash through the first deck and the wharf.
    — Carrie Hagen, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The wharf’s changes are more than physical.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Bit by bit, week by week, a boat took shape in the brush near a fisherman’s wharf.
    — Brendan Quinn, The Athletic, 1 July 2024
  • The wharf has been closed off to the public since Monday’s high surf.
    — Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Reg goes to a bar by the wharf, where Pete has arranged to meet him.
    — Rachel Kushner, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017
  • Time, perhaps, for Australia to build a few nice, long wharves.
    — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
  • There are plenty of other challenges for the wharf.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Or, the quaint cobblestone streets that lead to the historic wharves.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
  • It will be located on the site of the old wharf where slave ships unloaded.
    — Time, 20 June 2018
  • While the end of the wharf — the part that collapsed — was closed to the public, the rest of the wharf was open.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • The cove was eventually filled in and on that land, a shipwright built a wharf.
    — Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
  • The wharf shed washed away a few times, but it was always rebuilt by the townspeople.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Oct. 2020
  • More pressing for some players along the wharf is what happens in coming months.
    — John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Sep. 2023
  • The waterfront was jammed with steamboats awaiting their turn at the wharf.
    — Jeff Suess, Cincinnati.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Police said they had been told the woman was swimming off the wharf when the shark attacked her.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In January, large waves and high tides destroyed parts of the town’s wharf.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • It was pulled on to the wharf of Waterside and stuffed into a giant bag.
    — Gordon Rago, Washington Post, 6 Sep. 2019
  • The only other sounds are the lapping waves against the yachts in front of these cottages spread out along the wharves.
    — Laurie Werner, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Three workers inspecting the wharf fell into the choppy ocean waves as the end of the wharf broke in two.
    — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • 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 restaurant is located on the wharf, near the hotels, shopping and cruise ships.
    — Judy Koutsky, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • Pounded by three years of rough surf, the Bay Area’s historic wharfs are struggling.
    — Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024
  • The wharves and warehouses along Pratt Street burned fiercely.
    — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2026
  • The adorable animal came up to the edge of the wharf, and the family started feeding it.
    — Kalila Morsink, Smithsonian, 30 June 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
  • In celebration of the reopening, parking for the first two hours on the wharf will be free for the month.
    — Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2025

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