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Discover LudwigThe phrase "anchored him" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English
It is commonly used to describe a situation in which someone is being held in place or supported by something or someone else. Example: The weight of his emotions anchored him to the ground, making it difficult for him to move.
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And she, it seemed, anchored him – at least for a while.
And not long afterward, the Marines began processing his medical discharge for post-traumatic stress disorder, severing his link to the Reserve unit that anchored him and sending him off to seek help from veterans hospitals.
In the course of his 67 years, Trollope published more than 40 novels including two series (the Barchester Chronicles and the Pallisers) that anchored him in the public mind as the model of the Victorian literary man.
Today we can look back and see his wit, smart thinking and compassion have anchored him from the get-go.
During the week that Ibrahim drifted perilously close to death, it was the smallest gestures that anchored him again.
Sir Alex Ferguson could not see past it and so handed him the no.7 shirt and anchored him to the right wing, from where he would feed the appetite of avaricious centre forwards with balls whipped in accurately and at pace.
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The loss left Mr. Iyer searching for something beyond a building and furniture, perhaps something invisible, to anchor him.
"She's had a tremendous effect in anchoring him, in calming him down, in making him feel it's O.K. to be scared, it's O.K. to be upset, it's O.K. to fail," Lynn Mamet says.
He's lucid most of the time, and his loving wife, Samantha, played by Jessica Chastain — the warmest actress of her generation — does everything she can to anchor him in some sort of graspable reality.
They are neither of them normal and, while I am sure she is lovely and smart, it seems to me she is entirely diminished by having to "anchor him in the real world".
Throughout the book, he furiously attempts to hold on to what can be kept: mittens, hats, rings, as if they have the power to anchor him to the world.
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