Sentence examples for mooring posts from inspiring English sources

The striped or brightly painted mooring posts for gondolas still line many canals.

Pelicans stood on mooring posts at the end of piers, silhouetted against the pink sky.

All that's left of those days are some massive lead mooring posts, kept, I suppose, as ornamental reminders.

Two small slots near the tip -- presumably for imaginary anchor chains -- are the only real nautical embellishment, though a few heavy mooring posts have been placed nearby.

But it is the palaces, not the ordinary dwellings, that front directly onto the larger canals, particularly the Grand Canal, with gaudily painted mooring posts marking their water entrances.

Bollards (mooring posts) on the lockside are used for holding vessels steady by ropes against the turbulence during lock operation; mooring hooks set in recesses in the walls provide an alternative anchorage against surging.

The building's developers had announced plans to create an aerial mooring post where travelers from Europe could debark.

The pieces include Barnaby Barford's porcelain house modeled on the Blind Beggar pub in the London borough of Tower Hamlets, André Klauser's miniature cast-iron mooring post and Ed Carpenter's enameled pins printed with Cockney slang.

No image is more arresting than that of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles docking at the mooring post of the Empire State Building, a giant cigarlike cylinder coming nose-to-nose with the tallest building in the world.

Reid, formerly in charge of Manchester City, Sunderland, Leeds and Thailand, applied for the Turf Moor post in November 2007 but lost out to Coyle.

In the Maghama area, with its Pular majority (the second-largest ethnic group after the Moors), three border posts have already been built.