How to Use unanchored in a Sentence

unanchored

adjective

• The weather service says storm threats include damage to porches, carports, sheds and unanchored mobile homes.
  — Bloomberg.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• But the centerpiece of the show is both impressive and instructive, even if it’s built on the flimsiest foundation and seems apt to topple over like an unanchored church steeple.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 21 June 2018
• Illustrating the danger, officials at the time said the mine became unanchored from whatever was holding it in place and that it was carried to shore by crashing waves.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 19 June 2022
• Without that frame, the tale and its characters have less resonance, and their outsized passions and emotions can seem unanchored and cartoonish.
  — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 29 Jan. 2017
• Rapid changes in technology, major shifts in the labor market and the economy, the Covid-19 pandemic, and more have caused many Americans to feel unanchored.
  — Thor Benson, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2022
• Like Lonnie Frisbee, Girard was unanchored and experimenting with drugs in the late 1960s.
  — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
• Little by little, the girl told Luna-Herrera about problems with friends and her boyfriend and problems at home that left her feeling alone and desperately unanchored.
  — Jocelyn Gecker, ajc, 4 Apr. 2022
• The key here is long-term inflation expectations which, while higher, do not look unanchored from near the policy target of 2% today.
  — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2022
• Because this album travels in so many directions, there are places where Mr. Vernon sounds unanchored, and where his reluctance gives way to lack of commitment.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2016
• The second is that the Fed has been too optimistic about prices cooling on their own, and fails to realize expectations have come unanchored, unleashing a wage-price spiral.
  — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
• So, no, inflation expectations are not becoming unanchored as the Fed has feared.
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• The weather service anticipates wind damage to porches, awnings, sheds and unanchored mobile homes.
  — Nyssa Kruse, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2020
• In the language of central banks, expectations become unanchored.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
• Structurally high and unanchored inflation was widespread by the time the 1970s oil shocks finished off any remaining foundations of a healthy inflation regime.
  — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2021
• Damage primarily to unanchored homes, shrubbery and trees.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 19 May 2021
• Damage primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery and trees.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 26 Aug. 2017
• When discussing energy, Harris has in mind a vague, albeit wholly unanchored, futurism.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
• An extreme version of deflationary pressures—that of a depression—remains on the risk menu because, like the opposite extreme of unanchored double-digit inflation and rates, it can never be ruled out.
  — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 7 June 2022
• Prices and wages could suddenly and quickly accelerate should unemployment fall beneath some threshold at which everything becomes unanchored.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• Gregory Coll will be able to interpret hard physical facts from speculation and unanchored analytical results.
  — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
• Finally, there is no evidence of unanchored inflation expectations.
  — Christian Weller, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• These days, however, teleworking policies have created geographic freedom; homeowners are now unanchored.
  — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 July 2021

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024