"anchor" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And when the last of the wine was gone we fell back on an ample supply of the sailor's sheet anchor - grog.
- I suppose I was really throwing out a sheet anchor of my own to be sure no one expected me to perform miracles.
- Hostages to the future and in sense my only sheet anchor.
- "Perhaps if we let the starboard sheet anchor down as a counterweight?"
- "She was the sheet anchor of his morality and the visionary spirit behind his highest political ideals."
- They released a sheet anchor, which held for two hours, when the ship again began to drive towards shore.
- The remaining wickets added only another 57, though Nurse - the sheet anchor - battled away until he was ninth out for 70.
- Lady Swarland is our sheet anchor; she helps us out each year with a subscription to put us on our feet again.
- It was the perfect academic discipline gained in his early life, the sheet anchor of his artistic credo, which facilitated these easy renderings.
- The euro must become a catalyst and a sheet anchor for the continuing unification of Europe.
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