Sentence examples for long pier from inspiring English sources

Nearby, a long pier where birders once scanned the bay for winter ducks was swept away.

To the west, about a mile away, was the long pier at Coney Island.

In the afternoon, the family had lunch at Lime's Bayside Bar & Grill at the end of a long pier.

A long pier leads from the restaurant to a boat shack, where guests can sit and take in the view by the warmth of a wood stove.

This resort on the Baltic has a sandy beach and a long pier that claims to be the longest in Europe.

In the morning, the harbor lapped a long pier and seeped toward the cobblestone streets, where a Civil War-era brick building had been converted to artists' studios.

Long piers reach out into the flat, dark bay.

Small, multicoloured boat houses and fish shacks sit out over the water on stilts, long piers and docks jutting out into the water, serving as a sad reminder of the region's once-rich fishing heritage.

The gentle slope of the beach means you can walk "almost over to Copenhagen without getting your hair wet," one local said, adding that she preferred the more rapid immersion provided by the long piers that hover above the gently lapping waves.

That still put me on long piers (some more than half a mile long), short piers (one only 75 feet), rickety old piers, new but sometimes boring concrete piers, solitary piers and piers jammed with fun seekers.

Stroll along the mile-long pier, where seals and porpoises surface occasionally, or along the waterfront to the stone tower where James Joyce set the opening of "Ulysses".