How to Use jetty in a Sentence
jetty
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These waves can knock you off your feet, both on the beach or a jetty.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
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Guests can board water taxis from the jetty.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Mar. 2026
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Avoid climbing on rocks, jetties, and logs.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
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Hernandez hoped the wind off the jetty would drown them out.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 3 Sep. 2025
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Fish from the jetties just past where the waves are breaking for best results.
—Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 July 2018
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One of my best pals back then was a kid who lived up the street from us, closer to the jetty.
—Corky Carroll, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
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Wind whipped whitecaps across the sea, and waves crashed against a nearby jetty.
—Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
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Some of the shoreline shell piles are solid enough that they’re used as jetties or boat docks.
—Patrick Whittle, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023
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In the last story, a woman sits on a beach watching her sons play on a jetty.
—Ann Levin, Star Tribune, 2 Nov. 2020
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Stay off jetties and avoid low-lying areas like beaches and tide pools.
—Jamie Hale | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2019
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This is a small beach with a jetty for saltwater fishing, among the best around.
—Caryn B. Davis, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Aug. 2019
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Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 10 July 2026
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People can be swept off rocks and jetties and drown while observing high surf.
—Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
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Waddell is on the jetty and removes her towel, still in her swimwear.
—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 30 July 2026
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People were urged to stay away from rocks, jetties and piers, and to never turn your back to the ocean.
—Carlos E. Castañeda, CBS News, 18 June 2026
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Folks working the jetties and piers for crabs found a few Dungeness and rock crabs.
—sacbee, 20 Mar. 2018
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Meet near the small jetty, right off Palm Avenue (north of the pier).
—Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
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Do not swim near the jetties, piers, or passes, as currents are strong in these areas.
—Amanda Ogle, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2025
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Try live shrimp near the jetties for mangrove snapper, black drum, redfish and a snook or two.
—Mark Blythe, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 July 2018
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Crabbing is allowed on the jetties but fishing along the compact sandy beach is banned.
—BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2018
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Outside, guests can relax and take a dip in the lake from their own private garden and jetty.
—Duncan Madden, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
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Port O’Connor — Redfish are good at the jetty on shrimp and crabs.
—Bink Grimes, Houston Chronicle, 28 Apr. 2018
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Fishing the south jetty was good for lingcod on herring and anchovies.
—sacbee, 9 Apr. 2018
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Rough seas can sweep up the beach and over rocks and jetties, pulling people into a cold turbulent ocean.
—Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2026
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The agency advised people to stay away from rocky areas, jetties and piers.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2025
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Officials urge beachgoers to stay off rocks and jetties at times of high surf and keep an eye on the ocean.
—Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times, 14 June 2026
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The surf break was born when the stone jetty was extended back in 1936.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 20 Aug. 2025
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The aid is being delivered as work continues on a jetty along the coast.
—NBC News, 15 Mar. 2024
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Folks casting snares from the jetty or hoops from the public poer got a keeper crab every now and then.
—Bee Staff, sacbee, 26 Feb. 2018
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When the sky cleared, the survivors trudged through a thick layer of ash to get to the small inflatable docked on the jetty.
—Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 13 July 2023
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