Sentence examples for pier up from inspiring English sources

Mary J. Blige, musician: I used to go to a pier up near the Bronx, on the Hudson River.

Yet even on a day like that there's a scene there — kites, surfers, 22 volleyball courts lining the pier, families, the rules of the pier up on a board, a lifeguard enforcing one of them on his megaphone ("No Rollerblading on the pier") — the whole human panoply is here.

During the second world war there was an order to blow the pier up – apparently in a bid to stop the enemy using it in a potential invasion – but it was spared.

In September 2010 Urban Splash placed the pier up for sale, citing a downfall in business caused by the recession as their reason.

The new bill would allow the trust to sell its air rights on those piers up to one block east of the park's boundaries.

On the beach a pier doubles up as a diving board and sunshade, as city-dwellers escape the heat.

A temporary wooden pier holding up the nearly completed bridge across the Connecticut River had collapsed the previous afternoon.

First there was the Shoo-Fly Landing, then in the 1890's the mile-long Long Wharf was built; in 1909 the city fishing pier went up.

A somewhat castellar pavilion, clad in timber from the old pier, pops up in the middle, to house cafe, shop and exhibition space.

Rather than eliminate the fields, Related proposes to move them to the roof of the pier, shore up its crumbling pilings and provide at least $5 million a year in rent.

Titchmarsh is a student of the Michael Parkinson school of interviewing: he goes in for a bit of gentle flirting, and questions along the lines of "You're very pretty, and you've had a brilliant career, haven't you?" They climb the lighthouse, stroll down the pier, roll up their trousers for a paddle in the sea, hold hands, giggle a lot about not very much.