How to Use anchorage in a Sentence

anchorage

noun

• The ring serves as a secure anchorage.
• A heavy metal ring provides anchorage for the cable.
• The anchorage gives boaters a free place to stay for up to five days.
  — Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• The vessel was towed to an anchorage out of the way of canal traffic.
  — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
• Its windows on one side look out on the anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, just across the street.
  — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
• At the foot of the hill were a dock and an anchorage where his extended clan moored their boats.
  — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
• Richardson Bay off Sausalito has been known as the last free anchorage out on the bay.
  — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2021
• The ship remained at the Ship Creek anchorage as a floating store for the duration of the sailing season.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
• Sharvit added that the sword bolsters the case that the area was used for anchorage, perhaps as early as the Late Bronze Age four millennia ago.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• There is a ship-to-ship transfer anchorage outside of Tripoli port limits.
  — Reuters, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2019
• The ship’s owner said the Rotterdam Express did not move from its anchorage or pass over the pipeline.
  — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2021
• Then, this morning, some cushions fall overboard as the boat is leaving the anchorage.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2021
• And a draft of just seven feet, which would also allow the yacht to enter shallow anchorages.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2023
• Various other finds in the area show the anchorage was used as early as the Late Bronze Age, or about four millennia ago.
  — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2021
• Planes swarmed overhead, bombs began to fall and torpedoes sliced through the anchorage of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• Identification of the various finds shows that the anchorage was used as early as the Late Bronze Age, 4,000 years ago.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2021
• Dredging the anchorage area will also help keep it deep enough to be used by oceangoing vessels.
  — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2020
• Two Celebrity ships — the Millennium and the Eclipse — are docked in the outer anchorage area off the coast of Coronado, with a skeleton crew on board.
  — Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2020
• The ship appears to have then engaged its engines to return to its anchorage about 10 minutes later.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• The kingdom helped the Happiness 1 reach anchorage off Jiddah, where it was repaired and later left.
  — Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, 21 June 2019
• There they were told they would be granted only 24 hours in an isolated anchorage and then must depart.
  — Herb McCormick, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2020
• Seismic work on the northern approach, southern approach and the north anchorage house — the box-like structure that holds all the cables coming off the span that tie down the bridge — has been completed.
  — Mark Prado, The Mercury News, 30 May 2017
• Data is based on container ships with a speed less than 2 knots both in the port Valencia and surrounding anchorage area.
  — Kevin Varley, Bloomberg.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• The only point of anchorage for boats departing from the nearby island of Ventotene, one sea mile off, is an ancient Roman harbor with ragged steps carved out of the rocks.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 4 June 2021
• But over the decades, Richardson Bay earned a reputation for being a laissez faire anchorage where peoplestayed for years.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Oct. 2021
• The fibers increase the strength and flexibility of the mix while ensuring a high porosity for better anchorage for plant roots.
  — Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 22 Sep. 2019
• These root deeply into the granular base for anchorage and moisture deeper inside the hillside.
  — Maureen Gilmer, idahostatesman, 7 Feb. 2018
• Farther south, the scent of Sicilian lemons on the sea breeze greets you at the beautiful anchorage at Mondello, which also has one of the nicest beaches near Palermo.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 13 Aug. 2021
• Due to the area's rugged landscape, all of the main supporting elements -- the 156-meter-high tower, the bridge approach slab on one end of the structure and the tunnel anchorage on the other end of the structure -- are built upon steep slopes.
  — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
• But the anchorage is nearly empty this year because of the ongoing border closure.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 July 2021

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024