Sentence examples for anchor waiting from inspiring English sources
To the north, we could see ships at anchor, waiting for a berth on the river Tyne; to the south, North Yorkshire's snow-covered headlands; in between, a razor-sharp North Sea horizon.
Here, above the chalk, is where the Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor, waiting for the tide to turn, while the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.
Above all, there are ships as far as the eye can see: tugboats, barges, shrimp boats sagging listlessly; farther out, vast oil tankers lying at anchor waiting for a ship's pilot to guide them safely into port.Every ship of consequence that comes into an American port has to be guided in by a pilot, who boards it a few miles offshore and dictates its passage into its appointed wharf.
When the voices start confiding their Christian names as I'm rinsing plates on the Never then it's time to haul anchor, wait in a dive in Parry Sound, and buy a round for whoever won't be a stranger.
When he speaks, he offers this dating advice for the pickup bars of the afterlife: When the voices start confiding their Christian names as I'm rinsing plates on the Never it's time to haul anchor, wait in a dive in Parry Sound, and buy a round for whoever won't be a stranger.
This is the beginning of the Thames Estuary, where, in centuries gone, a thousand ships would be anchored, waiting to go up into London.
With a short stop at Hobart, on 28 October they arrived at Albany, and anchored waiting to be joined by the Australian contingent.
The four anchors waited their turns in the East Room, with the Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington looming on the wall above.
So the anchors waited until the end of the 6 p.m. news on WVII, then told viewers that they were signing off, not just for the night but for good.
The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo.
Introducing the slave ship through the innocent perspective of an African captive, he wrote: The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo.
