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How to use ratlines in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ratlines? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Pamela watched the men climbing the ratlines, standing on the yards, or in the footropes.
Aloft, there were the conventional ratlines on both sides of each mast to gain access to the rigging.
In the fresh wind the vibration of the shrouds as fifty men ran up the ratlines could be distinctly heard.
The product of a seafaring family, Seal is at home among the rigging, the ratlines, the shrouds and spars of his leading lady.
The divers kitted up in harnesses and ascended the wet ratlines.
Examples from Classical Literature
Shocked into spasmodic action, the American jumped from barrel to ratlines.
The crew, perched in the ratlines, examined the horizon which contracted and darkened by degrees.
Save for the other matchstick mast and the spider-web ratlines, the horizon is unbroken.
The staffs themselves were like ships' masts, with topmasts spliced on in true nautical fashion, with shrouds, ratlines, gaffs, and flag-halyards.
Above, along the yardarm and up the ratlines swarmed his bowmen.
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