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drop anchor

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  1. secure a vessel with an anchor
    We anchored at Baltimore

How To Use drop anchor In A Sentence

  • Steve up-anchored and obliged, taking us closer inshore to drop anchor on top of a wreck where the lads caught pouting three at a time.
  • We stopped off at quiet coves where we could drop anchor and swim. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's the ideal place to drop anchor at the end of the day. Times, Sunday Times
  • We stopped off at quiet coves where we could drop anchor and swim. Times, Sunday Times
  • Its size means it can drop anchor in small coves and fishing villages inaccessible to larger vessels. Times, Sunday Times
  • If you arrive in your own or a chartered boat, you can drop anchor off the town or, a better choice, in sheltered Tyrrel Bay at the island's southwestern end.
  • Late in the afternoon, we drop anchor beneath the island's precipitous cliffs and, possessed by a powerful craving for a cold beer, row to the fish-stained docks.
  • It's the ideal place to drop anchor at the end of the day. Times, Sunday Times
  • Rain drove in great sheets across the bow as the ship struggled to drop anchor in the outer harbor.
  • PORT St Johns has had enough of so-called anglers who come in, drop anchor in the Umzimvubu River for a couple of nights, catch everything they can and then head off home with a boatload of fish to sell.
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