Sentence examples for mooring ropes from inspiring English sources

I'm getting a picture of a hot-air balloon straining against its mooring ropes.

For fear that its ebullience might carry it away, "Maebe" is held in place by mooring ropes.

Mick gloried in the workmen's graffiti on the sides of the ship, the rats scuttling down the mooring ropes, the heavy and hard work.

Greenpeace claimed the police cut the mooring ropes of the Rainbow Warrior when it tried to pull alongside the power station.

During the deployment of mooring components for an FPSO in deep water excessive torsional distortion was induced which led to failure of all six spiral strand mooring ropes.

The 192-foot-long, 59-foot-high blimp had just touched the ground about 1 p.m. with about 10 people tugging on mooring ropes from the nose when a gust of wind blew the airship about 20 feet.

At last the boat arrived in July, but without the anchor or the mooring rope.

The children and cars were fine, but the wind blew the folding kayak off the dock and broke the mooring rope.

"This will be very, very simple," Kaj said, explaining how we'd first descend slowly, using the boat's mooring rope to keep us from drifting.

Carrying their passports, a loaf of bread and a plastic bag filled with orange juice, the men shimmied across the ship's mooring rope that night, crept down to the engine room, and stayed there, whisperingly still, for the next five days.

In the next few seconds, Sidik was forced to launch himself off the back and into the water and stop the raft, using all his strength to pull on a bit of mooring rope tied to the end.