"pier" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- A temporary wooden pier holding up the nearly completed bridge across the Connecticut River had collapsed the previous afternoon.
- The pier then collapses onto him.
- On 10 October 1323 two piers on the south side of the nave collapsed dragging down much of the roof and wrecking five bays.
- In the same year, a pier in Katajanokka collapsed into the sea, and part of the long pier had to be closed.
- In 1751 the second most northerly pier collapsed and damaged the adjacent arches.
- The pier itself had collapsed.
- Ninety minutes later pier two and span two collapsed.
- The picture is even bleaker at the port of New London, which has been closed since last year when the state-owned pier collapsed.
- Before the pier collapsed in New London in April 1993, the state had spent only $3.2 million for maintenance, design work and emergency repairs in seven years.
- First, the temporary pier collapsed, breaking off two courses of iron plates from the caisson and releasing it from its mooring.
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