Sentence examples for being towed for from inspiring English sources

After being towed for five days back to the port of Murmansk, most of the crew were jailed for two months.

In some cases, though, when a small ship is being towed for scrap, breaks loose and cannot be caught, it is simply not reported and becomes an unquantified hazard for the shipping industry.

We get a wonderful close-up view of a plane being towed for take-off, while snacking on figs, grapes and apricot flapjacks, then enjoy a gentle ride to the plateau's highest point at Pole Bank.

He said the runaway engine had become unhitched at the Fresh Pond rail yard in Queens, where it was being towed for attachment to a Montauk-bound Long Island Rail Road train.

Rooney leaves to chase down his car, which is being towed for parking in front of a fire hydrant.

Of particular concern are the two submarines, the K-27, which was dumped into the Kara Sea in 1981, and the K-159, which sunk in 2003 into the Barents Sea, while being towed for dismantling.

The crippled ship was towed for six days until it sank.

Shortly after he returned, his Citroën was towed for $2,000 in unpaid parking tickets.

Typically, icebergs are towed for a few dozen kilometres to get them out the way of oil and gas platforms sitting a few hundred kilometres offshore.

In a series of surprise police inspections of Chinatown buses this week, two Fung Wah buses were towed for a variety of infractions, including a broken windshield wiper.

Because of the extreme gearing of the bike, Mueller-Korenek was towed for the first two miles of the five-mile course behind a dragster driven by Shea Holbrook, a professional racecar driver.