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pier

A pier is a raised place over the water for walking or tying boats to that connects to land.

pier

a platform built out from the shore into the water and supported by piles; provides access to ships and boats a support for two adjacent bridge spans (architecture) a vertical supporting structure (as a portion of wall between two doors or windows)

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Simple sentences

Tom was lying on the pier getting a suntan.
When we landed, we saw our friend on the pier.
Tom walked down the pier toward his boat, carrying three harpoons.
Tom shoved Mary off the pier.
Tom dove off the pier.
Have you ever seen a pier?
A ship is moored at the pier.
She pushed him off the pier.
Why don't you take a long walk off a short pier?
Tom pushed Mary off the pier.
Tom lost his footing and fell off the pier.

Movie subtitles

A tent on the new pier in Odessa is the final resting place for Vakulinchuk.
Rumours came from the pier.
The ship sails from Pier 19.
I hope no more of your homicidal friends are on the pier.
Don't stand there gaping like a halibut on a pier.
Suppose that you have seen the well-appointed King at Hampton Pier embark his royalty and his brave fleet.
You left the pier at 10:50.
There's a Packard belonging to them washing around in the surf off Lido Pier.
It was fished out of 12 feet of water off Lido Pier this morning.
It was pointed toward the end of the pier and the throttle pulled out.
And you want me to believe somebody came along ran that car to the ocean, pushed it off the pier then hid Geiger's body?
We're moored at the hotel pier, you know the spot.
Well, tell me this, Mr. Meade. Do you think Backalis could get so drunk. he'd fall down on the pier, hurt himself and topple into the river? I doubt it.
He was dumped off the Canal Street Pier about 5:00, 5:30.
A tent on the new pier: Vakulinchuk's last moorings.
A rumour spread from the pier.
Port Authority, pier nine.
I was going to the pier when I heard the boat broke loose.
I took him for a long walk on a short pier and he never came up.
IKnow where that Packard is now? It's in the sheriff's garage. It was fished out of 12 feet of water off Lido Pier this morning.
So you left an unconscious man in a car way out near Beverly. And you want me to believe somebody came along ran that car to the ocean, pushed it off the pier then hid Geiger's body?
Geier, we have to be at the pier in half an hour.
Just to make sure that he doesn't, I'll stand on the pier until your ship is out of sight.
We're down at Pier 5. A car just went off the pier.
Send all my luggage to the French Line pier and get down there as quickly as you can.
Edith and I are going to the concert on the east pier.
The French Line Pier.
To the pier.
I'm gonna kick this trunk right off the pier.
Tell me, Papa Miller, were you down at the pier this morning?
You know I go to the pier every morning.
I put one in a kid's pail near the Palace Pier.
I'll meet you on the Palace Pier Sunday by the concert hall, 9 o'clock.
Spicer says you were seen courting on the end of the pier.
We was at the Palace Pier.

News and current affairs

Until 2006, Berlusconi relied on three supporters: Northern League federalists, the post-fascists led by Gianfranco Fini, and the Catholic Union of the Center (UDC), under Pier Ferdinando Casini's leadership.
In this case, Berlusconi's forces could ally themselves with Pier Ferdinando Casini's centrist Catholic party, or work to form a coalition with their center-left adversary, the Democratic Party, led by Walter Veltroni.

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