How to Use unanchored in a Sentence

unanchored

adjective
  • An unanchored home slid 18 feet off its foundation and into a barn.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 8 May 2024
  • The barricades were flimsy and unanchored.
    — Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The weather service says storm threats include damage to porches, carports, sheds and unanchored mobile homes.
    — Bloomberg.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • While such a disaster cannot be ruled out, a structural break comes when long-term inflation expectations become unanchored.
    — Kristine Gill, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2024
  • The weather service anticipates wind damage to porches, awnings, sheds and unanchored mobile homes.
    — Nyssa Kruse, Arkansas Online, 27 Aug. 2020
  • In the language of central banks, expectations become unanchored.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Damage primarily to unanchored mobile homes, shrubbery and trees.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 26 Aug. 2017
  • So, no, inflation expectations are not becoming unanchored as the Fed has feared.
    — Robert Barone, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Without that frame, the tale and its characters have less resonance, and their outsized passions and emotions can seem unanchored and cartoonish.
    — Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 29 Jan. 2017
  • The key here is long-term inflation expectations which, while higher, do not look unanchored from near the policy target of 2% today.
    — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2022
  • When discussing energy, Harris has in mind a vague, albeit wholly unanchored, futurism.
    — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 16 Mar. 2022
  • But the centerpiece of the show is both impressive and instructive, even if it’s built on the flimsiest foundation and seems apt to topple over like an unanchored church steeple.
    — John Anderson, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • Illustrating the danger, officials at the time said the mine became unanchored from whatever was holding it in place and that it was carried to shore by crashing waves.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 19 June 2022
  • Powell explained that a truly sustained loss of confidence would show up not in asset prices alone, but in unanchored inflation expectations.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Central banks are focused on ensuring that inflation expectations do not become ‘unanchored’.
    — Kevin Coldiron, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Little by little, the girl told Luna-Herrera about problems with friends and her boyfriend and problems at home that left her feeling alone and desperately unanchored.
    — Jocelyn Gecker, ajc, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Kashkari added that the longer inflation remains elevated, the greater the risk that inflation expectations become unanchored and move higher.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 27 May 2026
  • The second is that the Fed has been too optimistic about prices cooling on their own, and fails to realize expectations have come unanchored, unleashing a wage-price spiral.
    — Nick Timiraos, WSJ, 12 Dec. 2021
  • Unsecured lightweight objects will be blown around, large tree limbs may break off, and damage to porches, sheds and unanchored mobile homes is possible, NWS says.
    — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Prices and wages could suddenly and quickly accelerate should unemployment fall beneath some threshold at which everything becomes unanchored.
    — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Structurally high and unanchored inflation was widespread by the time the 1970s oil shocks finished off any remaining foundations of a healthy inflation regime.
    — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Finally, there is no evidence of unanchored inflation expectations.
    — Christian Weller, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
  • But scientists wondered if, during their unanchored larval stage, young tubeworms might spread through cavities beneath the seabed formed by the vapor created when lava comes into contact with seawater.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • Like Lonnie Frisbee, Girard was unanchored and experimenting with drugs in the late 1960s.
    — Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2021
  • An extreme version of deflationary pressures—that of a depression—remains on the risk menu because, like the opposite extreme of unanchored double-digit inflation and rates, it can never be ruled out.
    — Paul Swartz, Fortune, 7 June 2022
  • Rapid changes in technology, major shifts in the labor market and the economy, the Covid-19 pandemic, and more have caused many Americans to feel unanchored.
    — Thor Benson, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2022
  • According to the federal Sturdy Act, unanchored dressers should remain upright for at least 10 seconds with a 60-pound weight hanging from an open, top drawer.
    — Kate Gibson, CBS News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Gregory Coll will be able to interpret hard physical facts from speculation and unanchored analytical results.
    — Baltimore Sun, 18 May 2022
  • These days, however, teleworking policies have created geographic freedom; homeowners are now unanchored.
    — Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 July 2021
  • Bebe ties the lyric to a broader stretch of uncertainty rather than a single moment, a period where her place in both her life and the industry felt unanchored—caught between external transition and internal recalibration.
    — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026

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