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How to use moorings in a sentence

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Permanent moorings have been established for charter and recreational boats.
There are too many nice boats sitting at their moorings, owned by people with no time to sail them.
There will be a marina and moorings for yachts within the Grand Canal Basin.
Other suggestions include opening up the river to more boats, providing better moorings and even a floating restaurant.
Well-tended houseboats line the towpath, berthed at permanent moorings complete with mini-gardens and bankside electricity supply.
Mr Fish allowed Elliott to sleep on the boat so long as he did not take it from its moorings in Naburn Marina.
St. Thomas harbor was pretty full of boats but most of them were on moorings just west of the docks at Yacht Haven.
Poetry is a drama in which objects are cut loose from their moorings and sent flying to make their own connections.
These moorings can be used in most seabed situations, but commonly used in rocky areas where mushroom anchors cannot be used.
The dual-mast, steel-hulled ketch pulls hard against its moorings, like a getaway car revving its engine.
Derelict flour mills on the River Roach could become a new marine development, possibly including waterside homes and moorings.
The lagoon, near the boat moorings, turned out to be extremely interesting.
I watched quietly as the other boats in the anchorage swung on their moorings.
They sail to and from not only the 185 ports mentioned but also an even larger number of smaller moorings and anchorages.
On Saturday afternoon power boats were let loose from their moorings and on Sunday vandals did the same to canoes.
University students in a rowing boat were put in danger, and houseboats were set rocking so violently that one damaged its moorings.
Aqua Cat was at one of its permanent moorings, near to another mooring where the itinerary called for regularly staged shark feeds.
At some small retail airports, some private planes that had been tied down were ripped loose from their moorings and flipped over.
Just under an hour later Ironheart cast off from its moorings and slipped out into the current.
The vessel has sunk at its moorings several times in recent years and needed pumping out by fire fighters.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When the Bovista ripens it breaks from its moorings and is blown about by the wind.
Pancks opened the door for him, towed him in, and retired to his own moorings in a corner.
Ten minutes later the aerostat was released from her moorings and rose swiftly and vertically into the air.
The galleys lost their moorings at Bangui, where the earth and even the sea trembled fourteen times in one day.
The catboat rocked at its moorings, and there was no trace of how Nita had departed.
The little gunboat Sabah was bobbing at her moorings, and Piang joined the crowd that was gazing in wonder at the strange craft.
He looked for the lobster car, which should have been floating at its moorings, but could not see it.
Heave the hussy up to her anchor, Mr. Leach, when we will cast an eye to her moorings.
Her hoop skirt was ever in need of repair, with tapes that had broken from their moorings or strings that had come loose.
The first impression one got of the Metagama as she moved gracefully to her moorings was that she was preeminently a children's ship.
At that moment Commander Farragut was ordering the last moorings to be cast loose which held the Abraham Lincoln to the pier of Brooklyn.
The ship had just loosed her moorings, and was gliding out to sea.
I told the dockman at our moorings to keep all fast for a minute.
There was the gentlest breeze, and at our moorings it was almost cool.
Old Scholey ran in at breakfast-time, to say she had slipped her moorings and was coming out, I jumped up, and made but two steps to the platform.
The sand and silt gathering in Rhos-on-Sea harbour has already led to the loss of five moorings and made it difficult for boat owners to take their vessels out of the harbour.
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