Sentence examples for pier about from inspiring English sources

The pier, about a quarter the size of a football field, collapsed at about 8 25 p.m.

When the Giants returned to the pier about two hours later, their dusty sneakers were ashen gray.

A section of its fishing pier, about 150 feet long, that extends over the Atlantic was toppled by towering, surging waves.

And there are plans for one or two more office buildings on a pier about a mile away, at the south end of Newport.

"Forty-two Kids", from 1907, is a scene of lads naked or almost naked cavorting on a broken pier about to jump into the river for a swim.

There's very much something of the old-fashioned pier about it, with the lovely old changing huts and kiosk helping to further transport you back in time.

Some of Ryan's friends on the pier joked about prostitution as if it were a profession, asking each other what time they got off work.

People complained that actually getting to the piers was about as easy as hitting a tee shot over the Hudson River.

You could argue it's got a whiff of the end-of-the-pier about it, but, equally, there's something pretty bracing about her absolute refusal to conform to the standard notions of festival headlining cool: perhaps one of the side-effects of selling 50m albums is that you develop a keenly defined sense of self.

Ocean Beach (known as OB) is a funky throwback to the 1960s, with one of the longest piers (about 0.5 miles) in California, a frisky dog beach, antique and vintage clothing stores, an eclectic mix of restaurants (such as the popular French-Mediterranean Bo-Beau Kitchen) and bars perfectly positioned to take in the sunset.

The piers, about 150 feet from one another, stretched in a line from the dam to a point 3 mile upriver.