Sentence examples for under the pier from inspiring English sources

Ryde Pier, Isle of Wight Use floats or feathers to catch bass, mackerel or garfish from under the pier itself.

But it was nasty under the pier.

"Under the pier you get no direct light.

He was found in Brighton, trying to suffocate himself under the pier.

Some firefighters in scuba gear fought the flames from under the pier.

In any case, even paddling out under the pier looked impossible this morning.

-- Herman Melville, 1863 When a credibly hot-under-the-collar Piers Morgan told Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, on his CNN show, "You're an unbelievably stupid man, aren't you?", my first impulse was to gloat that, at last, the gun-lobby had gotten the big smack-down that it and its millions of credulous adherents deserve.

That has left the Hudson River Park Trust, which runs the park, low on cash for routine maintenance and unable to tackle large infrastructure projects like replacing thousands of corroded pilings under the piers.

When the earthquake excitation is moderate and the wave-current action is relatively severe, the dynamic responses of the pier under independent wave-current action are comparable to those under independent earthquake action, and the effect of wave-current action on the seismic responses of the pier under combined earthquake and wave-current action is great and can not be ignored.

The study aims at identifying the areas of damage and roughly estimating the damage sustained by the pier under consideration.

In order to investigate the dynamic response of the pier under combined earthquake and wave-current action, a series of model tests of scale 50 1 was carried out using the Earthquake, Wave and Current Joint Simulation System.