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How To Use belay In A Sentence

• We were sleeping in our harnesses, also belayed to pitons and deadmen. The Viking Claw
• I was at the end of fixed ropes and did not wait for Ara to belay me who was still jumaring at the base of the wall.
• But a Suzuki Bluesmaster is about £20 quid a pop, so that order is belayed for now. Nobody ever got fired for using an E instead of an Em « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
• With thirty or more feet of extra rope, I rebelayed it through the jug handle perfectly situated above.
• A narrow inclined rift leads out to the head of the pitch, and a large wedged block provides an initial belay for a traverse at roof level to the first section of the pitch.
• I belayed Alex at his own urging -- a move to practice my confidence building -- and Alex belayed me as I climbed. Adrian Margaret Brune: Patagonia Climber Bean Bowers: 1973-2011, He Always Picked Himself -- And Others -- Up Again
• But when she isn't around, to paraphrase Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman, another belayer will do. A Match Made in Canada
• Everything rigged was way too hard for me, and I spent most of the night belaying. Every meal a banquet.
• I refused, humiliated and ashamed that I even had the chutzpah to belay Bean, let alone allow him to fall on my watch. Adrian Margaret Brune: Patagonia Climber Bean Bowers: 1973-2011, He Always Picked Himself -- And Others -- Up Again
• I found a spike and bolt only and nowhere to belay a lead in rope.