ANCHOR in a Sentence

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66 example sentences for ANCHOR, such as:

1. The boat anchored off the fort.
2. There is a felucca for you at anchor.
3. They lay at anchor outside the harbour.
4. One day a larger ship anchored offshore.
5. Several boats lay at anchor in the harbour.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANCHOR
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anchor
 v.  secure or fasten firmly; be fixed in place; narrate or coordinate
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1  The anchor was instantly dropped, and the chain ran rattling through the port-hole.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
2  "Morrel," said Dantes, approaching, "the vessel now rides at anchor, and I am at your service."
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1. Marseilles—The Arrival.
3  I will be a sailor; instead of the costume of our fathers, which you despise, I will wear a varnished hat, a striped shirt, and a blue jacket, with an anchor on the buttons.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3. The Catalans.
4  The boat they were in could not make a long voyage; there was no vessel at anchor outside the harbor; he thought, perhaps, they were going to leave him on some distant point.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
5  It seemed to him that the island trembled to its base, and that it would, like a vessel at anchor, break moorings, and bear him off into the centre of the storm.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
6  The boat that now arrived, assured by the answering signal that all was well, soon came in sight, white and silent as a phantom, and cast anchor within a cable's length of shore.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23. The Island of Monte Cristo.
7  Dantes had carefully noted the general appearance of the shore, and, instead of landing at the usual place, he dropped anchor in the little creek.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
8  His signal was returned, and in two hours afterwards the new-comer lay at anchor beside the yacht.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
9  Like the rats that one by one forsake the doomed ship even before the vessel weighs anchor, so all the numerous clerks had by degrees deserted the office and the warehouse.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29. The House of Morrel & Son.
10  It will be absolutely necessary that the place you may select have a small harbor, creek, or bay, into which my corvette can enter and remain at anchor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 46. Unlimited Credit.
11  Ten minutes afterwards, the sails were furled, and they cast anchor about a hundred fathoms from the little harbor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October.
12  There is a felucca for you at anchor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 117. The Fifth of October.
13  We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  That ship, wherever it was, was weighing anchor whilst she spoke.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  There are many ships weighing anchor at the moment in your so great Port of London.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
Example Sentence:
1  It is too late to cast anchor when the ship is on the rock.
2  We sailed into the bay and dropped anchor in five fathoms of water.
3  Several boats lay at anchor in the harbour.
4  They lay at anchor outside the harbour.
5  Her pledge to remain faithful was his anchor when in prison.
6  We set the post in concrete to anchor it in place.
7  Even France's brilliant freestyler and anchor Yannick Agnel couldn't make up the insurmountable deficit.
8  The boat anchored off the fort.
9  The child seat belt was not properly anchored to the car.
10  One day a larger ship anchored offshore.
11  The marches are a rekindling of a regular tactic during last year's student unrest and are anchored on the same theme: anger over government increases in the cost of education.
12  They also have a feature known as an elongated crest that anchored the upper arm muscles, a feature unique to dinosaurs.
13  But rarely was the music they played anchored in indigenous sounds of their homelands, as the groups eagerly explored musical hybrids.