Sentence examples for wide pier from inspiring English sources

After his swim at Chelsea Piers, Jefferson tried the Gansevoort Peninsula, a wide pier half a mile downtown that houses an old Department of Sanitation incinerator.

In 1825 a 4300 feet long and 80 feet wide pier was constructed 250 feet from, and perpendicular to, Albany's shoreline.

Carrère and Hastings devised the stacks with a long wall of narrow, deeply recessed windows slotted between wide piers to keep daylight off the books, not to give library patrons views of the outside.

The unmoulded arch rested on wide piers, each broken by a narrow window, above which ran a simple cornice.

Built of 200,000 specially designed polyethylene cubes normally used in the yachting industry for pontoons, the 16 metre-wide piers will float on the lake.

Workers board the ship, which currently houses about 260 workers, through a wide concrete pier and up a sturdy gangplank.

Kristy Knight has covered a tall, wide building pier with row upon row of brunette hair extensions, as if they were trophies.

Long, covered corridor bridges, like the 12th-century Rainbow Bridge in Wuyuan, Jiangxi province, which has wide stone-based piers and a wooden superstructure, were also built.

Suddenly the World Cup is warm and alive with people mingling on the wide sidewalks and the piers and the beach.

I thought I would be concerned about falling in but the piers are very wide and slope only at the edges to the water "like a beach".

In the design process Mr. Van Valkenburgh had asked the state Environmental Conservation Department, which polices the coastline, for permission to float a north-south footbridge, just 12 feet wide, between the embankment where the old pier ended and the next pier over, where the architects are installing sports fields.