Sentence examples for were battened down from inspiring English sources

Hatches were battened down.

But a navy source told the RIA Novosti agency that the submarine was submerged when the system triggered, and the victims were unable to leave compartments that were battened down.

I am now in The sky was battened down Into an empty cube Percussive, furious, this wind.

Hatches may be being battened down across the world but no one, it seems, has told super-rich art buyers.

Only this time a crew for Pilgrim Films and Television was battened down in basements and FEMA shelters alongside them.

In addition, most of its hatches had been battened down, suggesting that the crew had prepared the ship for winter before departing.

All the hatches look to be battened down — though you might let your hubby know that I've always had a yen for the high seas.

She designed as if she were on a ship, where space is scant and items may have to be battened down in a storm.

WEST MEADOW BEACH, N.Y., Oct. 11 - Most of the beach cottages here along the Long Island Sound are battened down and boarded up for winter.

"We are making sure the hatches are battened down," Mr. Plecas said, "and that we're ready to take this on as early as Monday morning".

But what can they possibly mean in the dead of winter, in northerly climes where farms are battened down and the earth is as hard as a raw cabbage?