"anchor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I ought to get away from the house and throw out a sea anchor, he thought.
- "Maybe I could rig some kind of sea anchor," he said.
- In that case my only course would be to take all sail off her and lie to a sea anchor.
- There are other times when you might want to ride to a sea anchor.
- There was no time to pull in the lines to the sea anchors.
- The sailing master had been lost when he attempted to put out a sea anchor.
- She had dropped a sea anchor to maintain her position.
- The first, and probably most well known use, of the sea anchor is to aid vessels in heavy weather.
- We must put out a sea anchor in case the engine stops.
- The sea anchors did their job well-in fact, nearly too well.
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