"pier" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The live attached to any available hard surface, including rocks, pier pilings, ship hull, oyster shells, and mangrove roots.
- Bennie laughed sourly, but he was watching the spectral outlines of the brown pelicans on their perches atop the pier pilings.
- The base of the point is described as "a rocky intertidal habitat, although species present there are more like those [found near] pier pilings" (Kisner, 1998).
- They passed Willowood in the afternoon; it stood as before, ruined and empty, pier pilings thrusting up through the green waters of the Oriel and the wrecked boathouse visible beyond.
- The maid's legs were like pier pilings.
- Her husband, Jimmy, who died last year, had a commercial crabbing license, and she proudly displays a photo of his boat crammed with 2,000 blue crabs netted from pier pilings.
- It is commonly found in intertidal waters on mussels, rocks and pier pilings.
- They are common during summer in shallow water around pier pilings on sandy bottoms.
- In the horrific seconds that followed, pier pilings sliced into the side of the ferry, killing 10 people and severely injuring dozens of others.
- Cormorants spreading their wings on pier pilings and diving for fish.
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