Sentence examples for anchored up from inspiring English sources

The wind was picking up again, so we anchored up just off a picturesque shell beach, hoping to see cruising fish despite the chop and turbidity.

The second generation of rainbow trout integrated map anchored up to 265 contigs to the genetic map, covering ∼11% of the genome.

Anchored up at nights in the lovely seven-mile-by-four-mile lagoon of one of the three islands (an uninhabited one called St. François), Martin and his South Africans started noticing huge schools of bonefish prowling the hard white sand flats of the lagoon.

Anchoring up just off a vertical mud bank carpeted with the hardy, vivid green grasses you find in estuaries, we made long, arching, whistling shots, or casts, into the pea-green water.

We left the dock on Marco at about four on a Sunday afternoon, shedding boat traffic and the old New York mood as we ran South for Chokoloskee Bay where there was a well-marked channel and I figured we would anchor up and spend the night.

I knew I had to get to hospital, but first we had to hoist the anchor up the last 6ft.

Passing over the site, we used the hydraulic winches to move the anchor up and out — then released it.

It's night, we anchor up and bob out on the bay, with all the other starers of the Islands.

Ms. Brock kept cam anchors up front on harness gear loops; carabiners were stacked farther back on her hips.

Fastened to the lake floor every 50m, with anchors up to 90m deep and some weighing 7 tons, it is an ambitious vision.

On anchor up the Kinabatangan River in Sabah, there were trees and plants in more shades of green than I thought imaginable.