Sentence examples for mooring them from inspiring English sources

I remember hearing of various contingency plans (including moving the boats into the Mississippi River or taking them out into the Gulf and sinking them), but the governing policy essentially amounted to mooring them tight and hoping for the best.

The answer, as a visit to this place on the island of Rügen in the former Communist East Germany seemed to show, is that such projects, of memory and conscience, may proceed only at a halting pace, reflecting the cautious way in which Germans are slowly loosening the bonds of guilt mooring them to a past that is remote in time yet stamped indelibly on the national DNA.

To load migrants on to the wooden boats, smugglers moor them a couple of miles out to sea, and then bring the migrants there in rubber dinghies.

She continued: "They tie up slaves likes hogs – moor them up like cattle, and they [whip] them, so as hogs, or cattle, or horses never were flogged – and yet they come home and say... that slaves don't want to get out of slavery.

Other times I look up at the lead boats towering above me – the Christina S and the Indianna are especially impressive, particularly when the Out camp moors them to the side of HMS Belfast, and it legitimately looks like the perma-docked war ship is really, really mad about fish – and think: fucking hell, they really are making a point.

"Waterside flats command a premium if there are no boaters moored alongside them".

From there they will be transferred to Danish and Norwegian ships that will transport them to Spain, where they will be moved to another ship moored waiting for them at a US Navy base in Cadiz.

Though the rise of the Brisbane river had been predicted for many days, owners left their boats on the river, some of them moored to pontoons, which were themselves ripped from their moorings.

As the TV crew approached him on the harbourside, close to where his £100m superyacht Lionheart was moored, he told them: "I'm going to call the police if you don't go away".

You see them moored in the lagoon, the yachts: each one conveying their cargo of multimillionaire art collectors to the prosecco-sodden art ritual that is the opening of the Venice Biennale.

The Greeks and Romans probably introduced them to Europe; the Moors took them to Spain.