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• The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from wharf facilities to the protocolary opening.From the entry budget
• They moored the boat to the wharf.From the entry moor
• At Shanghai the ship lay at the Pootung wharf in the Whang Poo river.2013, Malcolm Smith, Voices in Flight: The Fleet Air Arm, Pen & Sword Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5. From the entry Pootung
• At one wharf we encountered a man who had just come in with about 25 turrs.2011, J. Alexander Burnett, A Passion for Wildlife, page 44. From the entry turr
• The wharf now is a marina, the torpedo storage sheds, a dining pavilion.1996, Robert Gannon, Hellions of the Deep, page 34. From the entry betweentimes
• He was lying on the wharf beside me when he grew silent.1980, Judith Schubert Kranes, David Schubert, Works and Days (Contemporary Poetry Series; 24), Princeton, N.J.: Quarterly Review of…. From the entry beditate
• Bill had been seagulling on the wharf since he got back from the war.1964, O. E. Middleton, A Walk on the Beach, M. Joseph, page 215. From the entry seagull
• Early the next morning Leander walked down the fish-smelling path to the wharf where the Topaze lay.1957, John Cheever, chapter 11, in The Wapshot Chronicle, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →OCLC; republished London: Vintage Books, 1998…. From the entry wheelhouse
• I spraddled along the wharf and nearly fell into the water.1911 June, Jack London, “The First Landfall”, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 69. From the entry spraddle
• Galamanders, drawn by oxen or horses, transported the blocks to the cutting sheds, which were usually located near the wharfs.1956 August 12, Esther E[lizabeth] Wood, “Granite quarries brought prosperity to Maine coastal areas”, in Portland Sunday Telegram and…. From the entry galamander
• It lands among the crowd on the wharf.1925 August, Paul J. Haaren, “Faatoai to Papeete—Personally Conducted”, in Yachting, volume XXXVIII, number II, page 34, column 1. From the entry wharfwards
• The wharf had all the seeming of a ship's deck.1911 June, Jack London, “The First Landfall”, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 69. From the entry spraddle
• The bridgemen raise and lower the bridge, a movable platform which extends from the end of the wharf to the prow of the boat.1941, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 836. From the entry bridgeman
• Only a small wharf is available.1926 January, “Shipping Traffic in Foochow”, in The Chinese Economic Monthly [經濟討論處], volume III, number 1, The Chinese Government Bureau…. From the entry Mawei
• Sharp at eight we were waiting on the wharf where the Messagerie boats lie, and wondering what the deuce was going to happen.1905, Guy Newell Boothby, “The Treasure of Sacramento Nick”, in A Crime of the Under-Seas, London: Ward Lock & Co Limited, →OCLC, →OL. From the entry eight
• On the day of the funeral truckies on their way to the container wharf slow down as they pass the Railway Hotel and sound their earth-shattering horns.2007, Ron Davidson, Fremantle Impressions, Fremantle Press, page 282. From the entry truckie
• Wishing to land as near our HQ as possible, I told the captain of the tug to take us to the Vodka Stores wharf which is the NACB stores.1919, Philip Wilkinson, quoting Francis Adams, Red Star and Roundel, England: Fonthill, published 2019, page 95. From the entry NACB
• Implicit in the presumption operable here is the standard to which the operator is held: prudently navigated vessels do not allide with wharfs or moored vessels or aids to navigation.1984 "United States. National Transportation Safety Board Decisions Volume IV: Enforcement Decisions in Aviation and Marine Cases. January…. From the entry allision

Meaning of wharf

1. noun An artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.
2. noun Any bank of a river or shore of a sea.
3. verb To secure by a wharf.

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How do you use wharf in a sentence?

Wharf is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The prestigious building project is budgeted in great detail, from wharf facilities to the protocolary opening.”

What is a short sentence with wharf?

“Only a small wharf is available.”

What does wharf mean?

Wharf means an artificial landing place for ships on a riverbank or shore.