How to Use mooring in a Sentence

mooring

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  • The wind was strong enough to tear the boat from its moorings.
  • Dinghies and sailboats bobbed at their moorings just off the beach.
    — David G. Molyneaux, miamiherald, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Twenty-four boats tied up in slips along the dock were moved to other moorings.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 May 2018
  • But the mooring field idea didn’t prove to be a viable solution.
    — Linda Robertson, miamiherald, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The 23 pieces include both gold formations still clinging to the quartz stones on which they were found and pieces removed from their rocky moorings.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 6 May 2018
  • By Friday morning, oil sheens were seen at Piers 1 and 2 as well as in Hammond at the mooring basin.
    — Andre Meunier, OregonLive.com, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Several moorings ended on or near a dock that is part of an entirely separate lease, according to the report.
    — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 17 Feb. 2018
  • And, on another scoring play, the luckless Rask was unable to get the officials to notice a) that the goal had come off its moorings, and b) that the blade had come off one of his skates.
    — Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 7 May 2018
  • Apart from immigration, Coffman has barely budged from his conservative moorings.
    — Michael Finnegan, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • What has changed, however, is the political balance of power and the ideological moorings of the ruling party.
    — Milan Vaishnav, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Black people had snapped their moorings to servitude and arrived at the advanced subjectivity lushly evinced by their art: their poems and paintings, their novels and spirituals.
    — Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
  • What’s different about the latest project is the combined benefit of the blimp being able to lift an industry-leading 60 tons, but without any requirement for mooring pylons.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • So the mooring pins were freed, and Ms. Bruce, 31, steered away from the bank.
    — New York Times, 20 July 2021
  • Four sensors are on the dock to help guide the ship to its moorings.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 28 June 2018
  • Placing moorings up and down the fjord to probe its depths.
    — Paul Voosen, Science Magazine, 10 Oct. 2019
  • The fierce winds that evening tore the floating boat dock from its mooring and blew it a few hundred feet to the north.
    — Rich Heileman, cleveland, 17 Apr. 2020
  • At the bow of the ship is the anchor and gear room, which also holds a mooring post which slides out when the hatch is opened.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Nine barges broke loose from their moorings about a quarter-mile north of I-10.
    — Dug Begley, Houston Chronicle, 2 Oct. 2019
  • The rescue team headed to the possum's location on the mooring close to the pier.
    — People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Storm surges tore 20-ton sections of pier from their moorings and tossed them onto the shore.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The lobster boat was returned to its mooring, Noel said.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2021
  • The worker ran along the dock and somehow jumped aboard the boat in the nick of time, only to grab the keys away from Watson and steer it back to the mooring.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 6 June 2018
  • The site will be marked with a deep-water mooring buoy so divers can safely visit the wreck.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The game was also briefly delayed late in the second half after one of the nets ripped off its mooring.
    — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The two sailors — Mays and Gonzales — were each assigned to clean mooring stations on the ship.
    — Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2022
  • When guests are not swimming at the stern, the swim platform doubles as a mooring spot for tenders and toys.
    — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 17 Mar. 2023
  • These West Coast wind farms will need to float, secured with a series of anchors and mooring lines.
    — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2023
  • On July 14, a storm broke the moorings on Aldi’s rompong, setting him adrift.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2018
  • Winds that gusted to 220 mph lifted boats from their moorings and tossed them onto what used to be dry land.
    — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The process, which began on Sunday, included removing some anchors and mooring lines that had been attached to the ship after the crash.
    — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 19 May 2024

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