How To Use mooring line In A Sentence
- He parked alongside some piles of pallets stacked on the quayside which were very close to the bollards to which the starboard mooring lines were secured.
- The motion put such a great strain on New York "s mooring lines that they snapped with loud reports. Titanic - Destination disaster
- The ensuing tidal wave had snapped mooring lines, and even boats that had held their moorings were wrecked.
- Crewmen scampered about, untying the gaskets on the yawl-rigged barge's tan sails, and halyards started creaking aboard other boats while mooring lines splashed over the side to be hauled up by longshoremen.
- I turned my back on her, pulled in my mooring line, swung the bow round and blasted out to sea. IN FORKBEARD'S WAKE: Coasting Round Scandinavia
- It was nice to return to the creak of masts and mooring lines and the shadow of the piers. Tuning the Rig: A Journey to the Arctic
- I clung to her hand, offering her a mooring line in that churning sea of grief.
- Out in the pool the Maeve Corrigan had her flared bows into wind and was tugging impatiently at her mooring line like a thoroughbred. LET NOT THE DEEP