How To Use Mooring In A Sentence

There are too many nice boats sitting at their moorings, owned by people with no time to sail them.
How had she gone from discussing the characters in the book she was reading to Archie's description of a mooring hitch?
Tankers have to use floating hoses to connect with a single buoy mooring, which channel oil through subsea hoses to the pipelines.
Then came a week of strong northerlies and the Maria V remained on her moorings, tugging at the chain. THE MAIN CAGES
The park already has a marina with 100 boat moorings.

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Frequently afterwards, according to the legend, the boat was seen returning to its moorings and the sound of the oars grinding in the rowlocks could be clearly heard.
He parked alongside some piles of pallets stacked on the quayside which were very close to the bollards to which the starboard mooring lines were secured.
I am here concerned mainly with claims for damage caused by the deposit of silt on the bed of the river in sufficient quantities to interfere with navigation and the use of facilities such as slipways and moorings.
The first big winter storm will often deposit half a dozen boats (often with their inadequate moorings still attached) on the beach.
The captain piloted the boat into a mooring.
And yet, in the world of residential moorings, they are frowned upon. Times, Sunday Times
The motion put such a great strain on New York "s mooring lines that they snapped with loud reports. Titanic - Destination disaster
He then cited Edmund Burke, William F. Buckley, and Ronald Reagan as the "moorings" of the GOP. Keep the Change
During the storm several of our boats were torn from their moorings.
Thus the Letter contained no express reference to the River Moorings.
Slowly the the boat came into dock with the moorings and a slight thud resounded through out the ship as the cuffs locked down the ship holding it in place.
At some small retail airports, some private planes that had been tied down were ripped loose from their moorings and flipped over.
Last night, as strong gusts and heavy squalls hit the east coast, yachts were ripped from their moorings and more than half a million homes and businesses were left without power.
Then, the artist and a colleague were lifted 30ft into the air as they held on to mooring ropes. Times, Sunday Times
Untying the mooring ropes I pushed the motor into gear, slowly moving away from the jetty.
Is there not rather just cause for wonder that he did not speedily sink to the bottom, but that, on the contrary, he kept afloat, advanced to conspicuity and fame, and would, in all probability, have ultimately come with flying colours to a mooring in the port of honour and happiness, if Death had not unexpectedly arrested him in his progress. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
They took the council's offer of rented moorings and went legit. Times, Sunday Times
Stroll the paved waterfront walk along Marine Drive and explore the east and west mooring basins.
Emergency workers fear that the burning ship could slip its moorings.
He turned slowly around the room, getting used to the feel of the boat again, with subtle hum of the engines, and the gentle tug as she moved away from the moorings at dockside.
Permanent moorings have been established for charter and recreational boats.
The mooring buoy grid itself will be safer and far more compact than the present anchoring arrangements and will leave plenty of space for other boats to anchor.
On the foredeck lies a large anchor with a coil of rope for mooring the boat.
The captain piloted the boat into a mooring.
Boats hung motionless at their moorings, their mast-images unrippled in the still water. Greenwitch
Moreover, the website of the Hotel which had been designed by your clients had included the private moorings as being one of the Hotel's facilities.
The resorts, which range from campgrounds to luxury hotels, often welcome yachters, and several of them offer either moorings or marina accommodation, at a price.
The Aran Islands lifeboat had broken loose from its mooring in a gale at the beginning of November.
Many fishermen may be unaware of the effect of their activities on the salmon stock or may not know that the buoys around farms indicate the presence of a network of moorings and anchors keeping the farm in place.
Complaints were made by the operators of wharves, by yacht clubs whose moorings were affected and by others to whom I shall refer in more detail at a later stage.
Presently it is difficult to locate a mooring to berth a boat for the night, let alone find one to tie to while diving.
I'd like to point out that there is an associated problem: mooring of houseboats in marinas that have habitable buildings located close to the boat slips.
In those long lightsome Irish summer evenings when the sun doesn't sink until after ten o'clock, the family would linger onboard at the mooring.
Even those which did stay for any length of time had to survive batterings, groundings and the ravages of the Great Storm of 1869, which pulled ships from their moorings and pitched the Humber into chaos.
At first I was sanguine enough to hope that, seeing how we slipped away from her, the lateener would 'bout ship, and return to her moorings; but nothing of the kind: she held on like grim death, her skipper, no doubt, being seaman enough to read in the increasingly-threatening aspect of the heavens a promise that his turn should come by-and-by. Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War
After his funeral on Wednesday, family and friends attended his wake at the Moorings function room, behind the Anchor pub.
The boats at their moorings were pointing out towards the sound -- south. THE MAIN CAGES
'It was this way, sir: I'd scarcely finished mooring the boat again, and was turning to go indoors, when I heard a splash, t'other side of the creek, where; the path comes down under the loom of the trees, and, next moment, a voice as if some person was drowning and guggling for help. Poison Island
The earnings from mooring and unmooring vessels shall be distributed in equal shares amongst the Pilots, and past and present Apprentices so employed, as well as the Pilot on watch and the one next in turn.
Lower mooring fees and a shorter waiting time for berths are other draws. Times, Sunday Times
The last pocket of affordable mooring in the south's home of sailing could soon become an expensive marina and exclusive playground for the rich and famous.
However, harbour rules forbid owners with permanent moorings to spend more than a couple of nights a week aboard their yachts, so they cannot become a permanent home.
The Hispania is a majestic sight, and lying on the roof of the aft deckhouse the whole stern can be viewed, complete with railings, alternate steering gear and mooring bollards.
It is possible to get a mortgage and you are buying both boat and mooring. Times, Sunday Times
It sees storm clouds torn from their moorings and smashed against the ground with a minutely escalating, hissing swirl of arterial spray, then morphing into a jackhammer pulse.
He said that when he left his car he noticed that the vessel had drifted from the position in which she was moored and that the mooring ropes were broken and floating in the sea.
Above the bow, to the port side of the wreck, debris from the deck includes a pair of mooring bollards and a small crane that would have been used to service the anchors.
His pride and joy will be sitting bobbing about on its mooring happy to be released from its winter storage, itching to get its decks japped.
Your July cover caption reflects that the Star Flyer is ‘gliding peacefully through the Aegean Sea’ when she actually rests at anchor, tied between two mooring buoys.
The characters indulge in endless porny sex and there are very few ethical moorings.
When we motor into the channel, however, I can't help noticing that the mooring buoy is trailing a foaming wake as the outgoing tide thunders past the boat.
He was responsible for securing the fenders and stowing mooring ropes when the vessel left berth.
The sinking occurred because somebody cut each of the vessel's eight mooring ropes by which she was attached to two shoreside bollards.
We won't finance a boat unless it has a mooring, and demand for moorings far outstrips supply.
Though the rise of the Brisbane river had been predicted for many days, owners left their boats on the river, some of them moored to pontoons, which were themselves ripped from their moorings. Australian floods: Why were we so surprised?
I understand that anglers at this venue are having bother with boaters who seem to be under the misapprehension that the sand bed opposite the Nidd mouth is available for mooring.
Then, the artist and a colleague were lifted 30ft into the air as they held on to mooring ropes. Times, Sunday Times
They will also return the sail boat to its mooring somewhere far away. Times, Sunday Times
After promising discipline and reduced spending amid inflation concerns this past year, some are concerned that the government will unfasten its moorings, using the European crisis to boost spending again. Growing Economies, Falling Markets
The resorts, which range from campgrounds to luxury hotels, often welcome yachties, and several of them offer either moorings or marina accommodation, at a price.
They took the council's offer of rented moorings and went legit. Times, Sunday Times
In addition new parks, public spaces and pedestrian routes, a new marina, moorings and recreation areas will be built throughout the whole docks area.
The mooring and towing of oil rigs and huge ships rely on the strength and durability of thick ropes and the splices that join those ropes.
But a minute later, the ground crew was rushing to untether us from our mooring—or, as Captain Judd referred to it, "the stick"—and the giant balloon was weather-vaning in the breeze, as if weightless. Saved by the Captain
The rooms in The Moorings are generous and bright, while the back garden is a good size.
Just 9,000 more will get you one of the precious moorings in the new marina in front. Times, Sunday Times
It is a sailing resort with all the related services such as mooring on floating bridges, catways, quays, fuel, showers, daily weather reports and boat hire.
Hardly had his sails been furled and his mooring made fast than he was hustling his passengers ashore.
He watched with little interest as the bargemen on the Canal du Midi lashed their p-niches to double moorings, or even to the bases of the lime trees that lined the bank. Sepulchre
A study published in the journal Developmental Cell reveals how connective tissue holding a cancer cell in place might degrade, unmooring the diseased cell and allowing it to spread to other parts of the body.
Some boat moorings are available for residents. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, ask for a mooring along the Balboa shore, in reasonable proximity to the shoreside restaurants and shops.
After mooring and rigging for the night the sea fret closed in further limiting visibility to less than 100 yards.
And at Durn, further east along the canal, there could be a boatyard, long and short-term moorings, a chandlery, workshops and town houses and apartments.
After ripping a steel sink from its moorings, the ape - famous for using sign language - signed to claim that her tiny pet kitten had done the damage
One of the single-masted vessels had slipped its mooring and as Phoebe watched it was dashed against the harbor wall. EVERVILLE
The money, which will be allocated over two years, will also provide viewpoints of canal cuttings and mooring points to encourage people on narrowboats to stop off in Hyndburn.
After the battling for 20 minutes, the coaches took the nets off the moorings, which is always the signal for players that their legs are about to burn. StarTribune.com rss feed
Emergency workers fear that the burning ship could slip its moorings.
Emergency workers fear that the burning ship could slip its moorings.
During the storm several of our boats were torn from their moorings.
The association is in the planning stages of setting up mooring buoys at the more visited sites like Pantai Merah, Padar Island, and Cannibal Rock.
As a rant from someone who's admittedly and rather amusingly lost his "moorings" (and is ecstatic about it), however, Joe Bageant's offering is certainly no worse than most. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
The foreyard, which did very well for mooring the anchors, was quite inadequate to the transport of passengers and provisions. In Search of the Castaways
But perhaps the simplest and most effective was the introduction of heavy chain moorings which the sweep wires could not sever.
The boatyard and its moorings introduced Roy to a tapestry of like minded people and also earned them a large spread in the April '63 edition of lifestyle magazine The Tatler.
At Carval Rock we tie off to a mooring buoy bolted into the reef at 15m.
In the harbour the winds tore the boats from their moorings and sent them waltzing out onto the open waves, where they were flung higher than the kirk steeple, only to be toppled down again and smashed to matchwood on the skerries.
A dangerously weak link was accidentally discovered on the moorings of one yacht just the day before the gales struck.
Beginners start with a Competent Crew course, which covers subjects such as sail handling, mooring, rope work, safety and helmsmanship.
Modern, well-equipped dive boats leave every day for different sites, all 60 of which have mooring buoys.
Now she shares her bay with three dayboats and a couple of other safari boats, and a rough jetty stretches almost to her mooring.
That dawn the first catastrophe came when a steam ship broke its moorings and took out all three bridges to the mainland.
Others have come to take their place, presumably attracted by the free mooring facilities and the council's laissez-faire policy.
Before we left I attached a beacon to the mooring buoy so that we could find it for a night-dive - this site had to be visited again.
It is so strong that a mooring pennant can be shackled through a special fitting so the entire boat can swing off the bobstay fitting, without any concern about chafing.
With this object, the caddis worm cuts its moorings, that is to say, the rootlets which keep the cylinder fixed, or else the half-severed leaf of pond weed on which the cone-shaped bag has come into being. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography
There were 25 guests aboard when the boat slipped her moorings.
The club did not need it, however, because it had no marina facilities - docks, moorings or boat storage.
We had somehow got one of our mooring ropes entangled in the propeller of the boat, we had no engines, and we were drifting helplessly.
If the term ‘mooring’ is used to include a berth alongside then the gear which comprises the mooring - the bollards, bitts and rings, are in the case of St Peter's Quay, all on private property.
On board the Petrels they were raising their sails, dropping their moorings and drifting across the bay. THE MAIN CAGES
The trust recently passed a resolution to create more marinas with residential moorings.
Lower mooring fees and a shorter waiting time for berths are other draws. Times, Sunday Times
The ships in the harbor no longer lay peaceably at anchor, but pitched and bucked, tearing at their moorings like panicked thoroughbreds. EVERVILLE
Then, the artist and a colleague were lifted 30ft into the air as they held on to mooring ropes. Times, Sunday Times
It should be so light that it needs mooring ropes rather than a handbrake, to stop it floating away. Times, Sunday Times
Many clubs do not have moorings but certainly have docks, piers, gangways and floats.
When the loading was completed, she sank at her moorings with only parts of her masts visible. Whatever Happened to Jack London's Boat, the Snark?
Mid-tempo guitar rock prevails; so does O'Donoghue's way of raspily soaring through choruses as if his voice has broken free from its moorings. The Script: Science and Faith
A banked or palisaded riverside enclosure with temporary dwellings and safe moorings for ships is probable.
A pair of longtail water taxis ferry divers, kit and the last of the supplies out to the mooring.
The second incident involved the coaster Lara which collided with a mooring post and navigation light at the entrance to Alexandra Dock, demolishing the light.
Scarcely taking his eyes off Toni, he attended to securing the piassava rope to its mooring. River Of Desire
Similar licences were granted to a number of individual owners to place moorings and to moor boats at various locations in the same general area.
In Fugitive Days Ayers uses the word moorings on two occasions, both times figuratively but precisely, as with, “in time words lost their moorings and floated away.” Deconstructing Obama
I got my equipment together, and an hour later was climbing into my drysuit on the large pontoon near the submarine mooring.
At the same time, a mooring buoy design competition, with cash awards, was held in the villages of the park.
There is also only one mooring ball in the entire park located about a mile southwest of Loggerhead Key at the wreck of the Avanti, an 1875 three-masted windjammer that sunk on the reef in 1907.
By the time police managed to get on board from their patrol inflatable, he had caused £21,467 damage to the cruiser and £200 damage to a mooring stanchion.
Perhaps the giant bike racks are actually intended to be mooring anchors for personal water craft in post-diluvian NYC. Nether Mind the Bulwarks: Awash With Bikes
He held on to a mooring buoy for 20 minutes until rescuers hauled him out with mild hypothermia. The Sun
The new facility would come complete with mooring cleats for tying boats, which provides proper access to solid ground and more security for the boats.
The whole of the window section can be pulled slightly adrift of its moorings and pivoted magically into the boot, which turns out to have a false bottom, like a spy's suitcase.
The term thus used becomes so broad and vague when cut off from its period moorings that it loses all useful - ness for concrete literary study. BAROQUE IN LITERATURE
I met up with Ronnie at his boat moorings and after the usual welcome and introduction it was into his flats boat and across the channel to the flats.
It should be so light that it needs mooring ropes rather than a handbrake, to stop it floating away. Times, Sunday Times
The dual-mast, steel-hulled ketch pulls hard against its moorings, like a getaway car revving its engine.
Last night, as strong gusts and heavy squalls hit the east coast, yachts were ripped from their moorings and more than half a million homes and businesses were left without power.
Struggling for her moorings there, she began reading C.G. Jung which led to books on alchemy, hermetic magic, astrology and the Kabbala.
Mr Fish allowed Elliott to sleep on the boat so long as he did not take it from its moorings in Naburn Marina.
We have rented a flat in Cannaregio in late April and have no idea about laws as to mooring, but even to rent a dinghy (aka a tinny where I come from) for a day would be bliss. Renting A Boat In Venice
The ensuing tidal wave had snapped mooring lines, and even boats that had held their moorings were wrecked.
Learning the ropes is a naval metaphor; it's about rigging and sails and mooring.
Mr Rothwell also believes the council should also make the cost of moorings cheaper for commercial hire sailing boats, to foster sailing on the lake.
Ascending the starboard side of the stern, there are no nets and it is safe to venture a little further forward to meet the deck near a small pair of mooring bollards.
He turned slowly around the room, getting used to the feel of the boat again, with subtle hum of the engines, and the gentle tug as she moved away from the moorings at dockside.
After being fitted with two new 5th order dioptric lights -- which, being exhibited from the same lantern, show a powerful fixed light -- she was towed up in July to relieve the Channel Rock lightship, which had been thirteen years at her moorings. Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91
We had somehow got one of our mooring ropes entangled in the propeller of the boat, we had no engines, and we were drifting helplessly.
Aimed at improving your sailing, it covers pilotage and navigation in tidal waters, selecting and reefing sails, interpreting shipping forecasts, mooring and dealing with emergencies.
Then, the artist and a colleague were lifted 30ft into the air as they held on to mooring ropes. Times, Sunday Times
And they are tampering with the mooring ropes and cables of many of the craft to gain access to their decks.
They rigged two mooring legs on the ship's fantail, consisting of anchors, chain and heavy cable attached to two buoys.
In a few seconds we slipped our moorings, and jib, foresail, and gaff-topsail were hauled out to the wind, and the main tack dropped, sooner than I have written it. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
Permanent mooring buoys are provided at all diving sites, and these are colour-coded to denote whether they are for use by local dive schools or by private boats.
The boat had broken away from its moorings.
The dog jumped out of Gareth's arms and plunged into the canal where he made his way under a mooring jetty.
t-shirt seller meets chicken wall sconce seller and it was a countertype conceived in the celestial mooring. Regretsy – Wait, what?
Photographs and film both show manila rope still neatly stowed about the ship's mooring bollards.
A lay by mooring area is available immediately to the east of the boat ramp.
This was our first big test at mooring outside a busy riverside pub - and we passed. The Sun
The vessel has sunk at its moorings several times in recent years and needed pumping out by fire fighters.
Soon we'll be mooring up in a secluded creek where we'll drink champagne to the soothing sounds of water clucking against boat and the occasional splosh of a jumping fish.
Sometimes it's done by rafting to a boat that is on a mooring.
The group will meet Cromarty Firth Port Authority later this month to discuss options for mooring the vessel.
Not until they had slipped their moorings and they were well out to sea did Elissa reveal their destination.
If I am writing a history of modern Hungarian painting, for example, and I decide to describe Csaba's paintings on their own terms, downplaying or omitting their sources, I risk unmooring myself from historical sense.
Towards the edge of the deck are a pair of mooring bollards and a fairlead.
Combining with the example, the paper presents a means to obtain the force of suspension chain of mooring floating dock with the computer program.
This youthful triangle becomes the centre of the story, a generation adrift because their parents, too, have lost their moorings in a suburban sea of affluence and anxious anomie.
The main engine must undergo both mooring and sea trials.
In the harbour the winds tore the boats from their moorings and sent them waltzing out onto the open waves.
Nicholas untied the boat from her mooring.
All on its own, with no aid or assistance from either clumsy poet or inquisitive cat, the heavy decorative roller blind at the window had come adrift from its mooring and fallen onto the windowsill.
He is a world leader in the manufacture of high quality lifting, mooring and access equipment for use in the offshore and marine industries.
He was found clinging to a mooring buoy. Times, Sunday Times
I watched quietly as the other boats in the anchorage swung on their moorings.
Supposing I were in all secretness to cut the hawser mooring one of those ships? Hunger
When conditions are good I like to make a day of it, mooring the boat in front of the lighthouse and climbing ashore with a picnic or even a barbecue between dives.
The tall man with long blue-black hair leaped lightly from the deck of the riverboat… not wishing to wait on the mooring and the gangplank.
They sail to and from not only the 185 ports mentioned but also an even larger number of smaller moorings and anchorages.
Presently it is difficult to locate a mooring to berth a boat for the night, let alone find one to tie to while diving.
Most yachtsmen interviewed by Port Call News did not object to paying a ‘reasonable ‘mooring fee.’
In like manner the Duke of Grafton was indemnified in 1806 for loss incurred through the resumption of the "prisage and butlerage" of wines; nor was Lord Gwydir permitted to suffer by the compulsory surrender of his lease in the mooring-chains. The Corporation of London, Its Rights and Privileges
Towards the edge of the deck are a pair of mooring bollards and a fairlead.
An expert added entangled fishing nets or mooring cables were most likely to have caused the failure. The Sun
Among other findings, there was support for more jetties and holiday moorings.
Boats should use permanent moorings, not anchors
The service ended in 1903 when the Bowmore was torn from her moorings at Rosses Point during a gale, driven ashore on Oyster Island and wrecked.
The escapees are often both radical and conservative, each a fitting response to being off the moorings, with only your trusty radiotelegraph to find your way back to port. I Have a Code
Emergency workers fear that the burning ship could slip its moorings.
Taken collectively, such episodes destabilize the notion of a coherent, stable self while detaching the mind's moorings in the individual body.
Others are tied to their moorings by tubes and drips. Times, Sunday Times
Even once such phrases began to get untethered from their precise technical moorings, they retained the power to invoke product superiority.
Crewmen scampered about, untying the gaskets on the yawl-rigged barge's tan sails, and halyards started creaking aboard other boats while mooring lines splashed over the side to be hauled up by longshoremen.
The bow is impressive and very photogenic, with the exposed starboard anchor still housed and its hawser and mooring bollards easily distinguishable.
Thankful, although she kept the disappointment to herself, the fact that the captain had not shifted what he called his "moorings" to her establishment. Thankful's Inheritance
Mr Mooring, who served with the Eighth Army and saw action at El-Alamein, does not scare easily.
This paper presents a series of graphs for the preliminary design of turret mooring systems.
Mr Trembath claimed it was unreasonable to charge for the privilege of mooring there, when it was only for a short period of time.
During the night, somebody had cut the boat loose from its moorings.
It should be so light that it needs mooring ropes rather than a handbrake, to stop it floating away. Times, Sunday Times
The correct way to attach to a mooring is to put one line through the mooring and bring it back to the same cleat and side as it started on.
The appetite from investors is there he explained yesterday over iced tea on his yacht, which has a permanent mooring in Cannes. Times, Sunday Times
During the storm several of our boats were torn from their moorings.

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