How To Use Drop anchor In A Sentence
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We are just about to drop anchor so those who fancy a dip can splash around in a perfect little cove.
The Sun
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Alternatively, drop anchor, pour a stiff drink and soak up the sun!
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As the standard length of rope required just to drop anchor was 120 fathoms, the market was a big one.
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Ceylon they proceed to Siam, and thence to Hong-Kong, where they drop anchor in the offing, and by a special custom the cargo is sold and paid for in sycee silver before disfreighting, and the bullion is in the safe of the huge smuggler, although the opium has not yet been removed.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
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But it's also a case of settling into your role in the side. Gary used to drop anchor for us at one end; Allan would be the one we called upon to break partnerships, or bowl in the slog overs in one-day games.
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Steve up-anchored and obliged, taking us closer inshore to drop anchor on top of a wreck where the lads caught pouting three at a time.
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Or rather dozens of them when we drop anchor at neighbouring La Digue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or rather dozens of them when we drop anchor at neighbouring La Digue.
Times, Sunday Times
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Or rather dozens of them when we drop anchor at neighbouring La Digue.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are just about to drop anchor so those who fancy a dip can splash around in a perfect little cove.
The Sun
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It's the ideal place to drop anchor at the end of the day.
Times, Sunday Times
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We drop anchor at Calivigny Island, don flippers and snorkels, and paddle off to look at the coral.
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Steve up-anchored and obliged, taking us closer inshore to drop anchor on top of a wreck where the lads caught pouting three at a time.
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We stopped off at quiet coves where we could drop anchor and swim.
Times, Sunday Times
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PORT St Johns has had enough of so-called anglers who come in, drop anchor in the Umzimvubu River for a couple of nights, catch everything they can and then head off home with a boatload of fish to sell.
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Rain drove in great sheets across the bow as the ship struggled to drop anchor in the outer harbor.
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It's the ideal place to drop anchor at the end of the day.
Times, Sunday Times
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Late in the afternoon, we drop anchor beneath the island's precipitous cliffs and, possessed by a powerful craving for a cold beer, row to the fish-stained docks.
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If you arrive in your own or a chartered boat, you can drop anchor off the town or, a better choice, in sheltered Tyrrel Bay at the island's southwestern end.
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Its size means it can drop anchor in small coves and fishing villages inaccessible to larger vessels.
Times, Sunday Times
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We stopped off at quiet coves where we could drop anchor and swim.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's the ideal place to drop anchor at the end of the day.
Times, Sunday Times
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We stopped off at quiet coves where we could drop anchor and swim.
Times, Sunday Times