Moorings
in example sentence
"What?" said Don Quixote, "cross ourselves and weigh anchor; I mean, embark and cut the
moorings
by which the bark is held;" and the bark began to drift away slowly from the bank.
More example sentences with word moorings
They were so desperate to try to, kind of, float the boats into the remaining pools of water, but they finally had to give up because the piers and the
moorings
simply couldn't keep up with the retreating shoreline.
If the EU aids in building a parallel structure that contradicts its core values, particularly the centrality of individual rights, it risks severing its meta-political
moorings
– the beliefs to which its worldview is tethered.
Just then Commander Farragut was giving orders to cast off the last
moorings
holding the Abraham Lincoln to its Brooklyn pier.
The longboat's coxswain took the tiller; his four companions leaned into their oars; the
moorings
were cast off and we pulled clear.
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