How to Use anchorage in a Sentence

anchorage

noun
  • The ring serves as a secure anchorage.
  • A heavy metal ring provides anchorage for the cable.
  • The anchorage gives boaters a free place to stay for up to five days.
    — Hillary Davis, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The vessel was towed to an anchorage out of the way of canal traffic.
    — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2021
  • If a tree is no longer standing straight, the wind may have yanked it from the anchorage of its roots.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 6 July 2025
  • At the foot of the hill were a dock and an anchorage where his extended clan moored their boats.
    — Charles McGrath, The New Yorker, 27 May 2022
  • The French navy is escorting the ship to anchorage for more checks, the statement said.
    — Arkansas Online, 23 Jan. 2026
  • There is a ship-to-ship transfer anchorage outside of Tripoli port limits.
    — Reuters, The Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2019
  • Then, this morning, some cushions fall overboard as the boat is leaving the anchorage.
    — Justin Curto, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Its windows on one side look out on the anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, just across the street.
    — Nicole Rudick, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2023
  • And a draft of just seven feet, which would also allow the yacht to enter shallow anchorages.
    — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Dredging the anchorage area will also help keep it deep enough to be used by oceangoing vessels.
    — Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 16 Aug. 2020
  • Richardson Bay off Sausalito has been known as the last free anchorage out on the bay.
    — Kellie Hwang, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2021
  • For anchorage, the cementum, ligament and bone grip the tooth at its root portion that is buried under the gum.
    — Samer Zaky, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2024
  • Soon the first vessels pulled away from the anchorage, to assemble mid-lake in battle formation.
    — / Cbs News, CBS News, 13 June 2025
  • There they were told they would be granted only 24 hours in an isolated anchorage and then must depart.
    — Herb McCormick, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2020
  • The beach clubs and anchorages rival those of the western Mediterranean—but without the same summer crush of crowds.
    — Geoffrey Ravoire, Travel + Leisure, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The ship appears to have then engaged its engines to return to its anchorage about 10 minutes later.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • These root deeply into the granular base for anchorage and moisture deeper inside the hillside.
    — Maureen Gilmer, idahostatesman, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The ship’s owner said the Rotterdam Express did not move from its anchorage or pass over the pipeline.
    — Matthias Gafni, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The waters of Security Bay, our overnight anchorage, were oily-calm and full of sea otters.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2025
  • The ship remained at the Ship Creek anchorage as a floating store for the duration of the sailing season.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The idyllic, postcard beaches, clear water, and sandy anchorages of the eastern region prove a bit more popular.
    — Kathleen Turner, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
  • What to See Each anchorage in the Whitsundays has something to offer.
    — Suzy Mercien-Ferol, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2025
  • Data is based on container ships with a speed less than 2 knots both in the port Valencia and surrounding anchorage area.
    — Kevin Varley, Bloomberg.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The blaze was contained in the early hours of Saturday morning before the vessel was moved to an anchorage roughly one mile from the shore.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The fibers increase the strength and flexibility of the mix while ensuring a high porosity for better anchorage for plant roots.
    — Charles Curkin, ELLE Decor, 22 Sep. 2019
  • The clash lasted several hours in the shallow anchorage outside Copenhagen.
    — Samantha Agate, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Apr. 2026
  • The kingdom helped the Happiness 1 reach anchorage off Jiddah, where it was repaired and later left.
    — Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, USA TODAY, 21 June 2019
  • Faced with an impassable strait, carriers did not hold vessels in indefinite anchorage.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 7 May 2026

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