How To Use batten down In A Sentence
- Sailors hop to it, and in an emergency, they can be counted on to reef the mainsail and batten down the hatches.
- That warning enabled her to take on extra water ballast, put out sea anchors and batten down for the blow.
- A natural tendency in times of recession is to batten down the hatches and think about our own needs.
- I don't want to say anything that will make you cry, so batten down the hatches and wait for my ship to come back. WEB OF DREAMS
- There's a storm coming, so let's batten down the hatches.
- We get used to that, we endure, we harden, we batten down the hatches to protect our habits. LOST CHILDREN
- Other storeowners tell us that they're clean out of plywood - no more plywood left on the island to batten down the hatches.
- They managed to batten down the shutters and doors before the hurricane hit.
- batten down a ship's hatches
- There is even a greater irony in our virtual exchange as both of us stood for countless hours in hurricanes as wind and rain pummeled our slickers telling people like us to batten down the hatches. Lauren Ashburn: Mommy's Got the Hurricane Blues
