6 sentences with 'anchored'
Example sentences and phrases with the word anchored and other words derived from it.
• « I can still remember blurry photographs of my father and me alone in a boat anchored near a blue-green islet of water lilies. »
• « In December 1773, a group of patriots protested against the Tea Act passed that year - which, among other provisions, granted the East India Company a monopoly on tea - by boarding British tea ships anchored in Boston harbour and dumping more than $1 million worth of tea (at current prices) into the water. »
• « Washington had placed these cannons on the hills overlooking the British fortified positions and Boston harbour, where British supply ships were anchored. The British could not return fire on the colonial positions because they could not raise their guns. »
• « Many of the defeated Americans were placed in prisons or on British prison ships anchored in Charleston harbour. »
• « Sloat, anchored off the coast of Mazatlan, learned that the war had begun and quickly set sail for California. He seized the city of Monterey in July 1846, less than a month after a group of American settlers led by William B. Ide seized control of Sonoma and declared California a republic. »
• « From the 18th to the 31st of December, Jean anchored off North of Doubtless Bay. At that point, Maori Waka rowed out to him, and begun the first acts of Trade in New Zealand. »