Sentence examples for anchored for a from inspiring English sources

With the wind light and the current headed south, the Half Moon would remain anchored for a while.

Parry, commander of a British Admiralty expedition to explore [End Page 5] Lancaster Sound and the eastern Baffin Island coast, anchored for a day and night at the mouth of Clyde Inlet in September 1820, having learned from a passing whaling vessel that a group of Inuit were camped there.

There Allemand anchored for a time at the Spanish island of Tenerife, where he was able to repair and resupply his squadron before embarking on a lengthy cruise against the British convoys that regularly crossed the region.

By mapping 120 bp of the flanking sequence surrounding each SNP on to scaffolds of ATLCOD1A build of the cod genome (Star et al. 2011) using BLASTN with an e-value threshold of 1−10, 133 additional SNPs could be anchored (for a total of 899 of the SNPs) on to specific linkage groups (LGs), although the position within LGs (in cM) could not be determined for these SNPs.

A polite six-week elimination contest among 12 contestants (now 10 after two episodes) to win a paid job as a "Sports Center anchor for a year.

We were at sea (anchored) for two nights, as a convoy.

These new spots mingle with businesses that have anchored Catskill for a while.

The scene is a reassuring anchor for a people buffeted by history.

It provides another source of light and serves as an anchor for a sculptural table.

"Clearly, they would be the anchor for a whole regeneration of that strip," he said.

There's no anchor for a new owner to fall back on".