How To Use Anchor chain In A Sentence
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Anchors and anchor chains cause serious damage to reef corals and will uproot sea grasses.
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Local environmentalists say that a single anchor chain can destroy almost an acre of coral in one day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Rainbow Warrior had been blockading the military port until police boarded the ship on Saturday night and cut her anchor chain forcing the ship into dock.
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The anchor chain tightened and ran up its side, forcing the boat over.
The Sun
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The anchor chains rumbled through hawsepipes.
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Her anchor chains are on trailers at dockside and her huge oil transfer hoses are nowhere to be seen.
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The rope fouled the anchor chain.
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A boatswain's mate on a ship's forecastle might not be paying attention to the color of the anchor chain paying out of the locker, or turn the friction brake in the wrong direction, with disastrous results.
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The anchor chain tightened and ran up its side, forcing the boat over.
The Sun
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Examining the port side, the anchor chain can be seen to hang down from the hawsepipe a foot or so and then abruptly end without an anchor.
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Swimming over and down the foredeck we could see winches, anchor chains and capstans fitted to an intact deck, as if on the day the Justicia was lost.
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The hook held the anchor chain so that it was slack on the bow roller, while the two eye-splices were passed through two hawses.
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Local environmentalists say that a single anchor chain can destroy almost an acre of coral in one day.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Rainbow Warrior had been blockading the military port until police boarded the ship on Saturday night and cut her anchor chain forcing the ship into dock.
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Thethe possibility of the dragging alarm by surveying changeable frequency of anchor chain strain.
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He climbed up the anchor chain of a Greek ship, pried open the hatch and lay for three days under a lifeboat, coming out into the light as the ship was passing through the Suez Canal.
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Local environmentalists say that a single anchor chain can destroy almost an acre of coral in one day.
Times, Sunday Times
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I need to find a way to make the two anchor chain hawses water tight.
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In addition to knitting, Johnson and a group of three women and one brave man meet several times a week in an empty space near the forecastle, the area of the ship where the anchor chains are stowed.
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With a hammer he knocked out the stopper; the starboard anchor dropped and the red rust flew from her hawsepipe as the anchor chain screamed through it.
Cappy Ricks Retires
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The anchor chain was spooling off.
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The anchor chain tightened and ran up its side, forcing the boat over.
The Sun
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She took shelter in Aros Bay, near Tobermory, but during the night her anchor chain parted and she drifted down the sound, driven 10 miles by howling winds and strong tides.
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The sun had sunk in a welter of blood; out in the bay the men aboard the carack had cut the anchor chain and The Red Hand was rapidly receding on the crimson horizon.
The Conquering Sword Of Conan
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The plates around the anchor chain bell mouth and rudder horn shall be strengthened.
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The hawseholes through which the huge anchor chains had once clanged are overgrown with thick layers of red and white sponges.
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For a minute or two Alphonse turned the idea hazily over in his apology for a mind; then, with a hasty exclamation, he ran to the side, and saw dimly the taut anchor chain.
The Admirable Tinker Child of the World
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The rope fouled the anchor chain.
