Sentence examples for these piers from inspiring English sources

"These piers are poured far away from here, Frank," Clare says, conspiratorially.

"I've actually seen it come through these piers when it was a real crazy squall".

The cost of redoing these piers would be about $70 million, a modest fraction of the $1.2 billion provided earlier by Washington to help revive the city.

But when the weather is warm, up to a quarter of a million people congregate on these piers and brightly painted promenades every weekend.

"It's far more expensive to replace, repair and take care of these piers than anyone anticipated," said Madelyn Wils, president and chief executive of the trust and a former executive vice president of the city's Economic Development Corporation.

And if your home builder or your general contractor isn't paying attention, or if he's been paid not to pay attention, or if his foreman happens to be Italian, then these piers get installed without anybody saying anything.

There were the piers, these abandoned docks that stuck out into the Hudson, where people would go and have sex in these big huge abandoned buildings.

The most high-profile of these was Piers Morgan, who Gayle retweeted saying: "I'm absolutely outraged that everyone's so absolutely outraged by [Chris Gayle] being a bit cheeky to a female reporter".

These arches brace the piers of the crossing on three sides, while the easternmost side is braced by a choir screen.

The cofferdam goes back at least to Roman engineers, who built a number of these enclosures to found the piers of their stone-arch bridges and aqueducts.

The gates are in wrought iron and the piers in ashlar buff gritstone; these are again listed Grade II.