Sentence examples for weighed anchor from inspiring English sources

Pompey weighed anchor at nightfall.

Aidid!" Today, the Harlan County weighed anchor and left.

The sailors weighed anchor for Engroneland (Greenland) and other destinations on the Viking trade route.

Returning to the Emeraude, there was time for a brisk swim in the surprisingly chilly waters before the captain weighed anchor.

The majority of the dead and wounded in the attack came from the cruise ships Costa Fascinosa and MSC Splendida – both quickly weighed anchor, their companies announcing that they would not return.

Thousands of tourists scrambled to board the last flights out of the boarded-up British resort island or book passage on five cruise ships that weighed anchor hours before schedule to escape the season's fourth tropical storm.

On our last night we weigh anchor just off the island of Kerrera.

On Oct. 26, she will learn whether she can weigh anchor for parts unknown.

Dr. Friedman, who cut his teeth on the Halley's Comet proposal, has long sought to weigh anchor in space.

We sail three nautical miles west to the fjord of Malangen, where we weigh anchor in a likely skrei patch.

G. 4, 331: ancoras, to work, i. e. hoist the anchor, weigh anchor, Liv. 28, 17: agricola incurvo terram molitus aratro, i. e., Liv. 6, 11, 8.