Sentences with anchorage
an·chor·age
A a - The nearest safe anchorage was in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
- The anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge
- Root systems of terrestrial plants serve many important tasks among which anchorage of the plant and uptake of water plus nutrients are the most important ones.
- The operation was carried out as strong winds battered Scotland, tearing a cargo ship from its anchorage in the Orkney islands.
- My photo below shows the rebuilt anchorage on the east wall in the peaceful churchyard surrounded by the bustle of the city centre.
- The longitudinal bars had sufficient anchorage to develop their strengths.
- Suva in Fiji was a veritable metropolis compared with some of the ports the frigate reached in the following weeks - in one case there was no port, just an anchorage outside a reef.
- The role played by lateral roots and root hairs in promoting plant anchorage, and specifically resistance to vertical uprooting forces has been determined experimentally.
- Anchorites and anchoresses lived the religious life in the solitude of an ‘ anchorage ’, usually a small hut or ‘cell’ built against a church.
- Eleusis Bay, a floating anchorage of laid-up ships near Athens, is gradually being cleared of ships that no longer have a cruising future.
- Many of the shipwrecks in Palau waters were later salvaged, with the exception of three to four shipwrecks in the anchorage areas.
- This transfer of experiences from one individual to another through the medium of visual art establishes critical anchorage in which the creator and the receiver seem to play a manifest role.
- The answer lies at least in part in a quest for anchorage, for attachment to others and a sense of continuity.
- They provided an added advantage to Lynn as a site attracting trade, since the fleets offered a sheltered anchorage for ships carrying visiting merchants.
- Inside, the luggage area has six anchorage points for securing smaller items of luggage to stop them sliding around during travel.
- To be sure, the titles of the paintings could provide some anchorage and steer the inquiry away from a purely phenomenological reading since they seem to suggest that there is a meaning, a hidden agenda.
- In addition, wall anchorage to satisfy earthquake loading conditions must resist very high loads.
- An intricate support structure of stainless-steel wires, bamboo poles and fishing nets provides anchorage for the fabric cladding.
- Both provide anchorage to a person who might otherwise get lost in meditation or in crusade.
- A heavy metal ring provides anchorage for the cable.