Examples of “waterfront” in a Sentence

noun Land that borders a river, lake, sea, or ocean.

• They bought a house right on the waterfront.
• The city rebuilt its old waterfront into a park with restaurants and bike paths.
• We ate dinner at a restaurant on the waterfront, watching the boats drift past.

noun The docks and warehouse district of a port town, especially one historically linked to shipping and manual labor.

• His grandfather worked the waterfront for forty years, loading cargo ships.
• Dockers once crowded the waterfront at dawn, hoping for a day's work.
• Old warehouses along the waterfront have stood empty for many years.