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Six example sentences with anchor, each labelled with its topic.
The ferry dropped its anchor in the bay, and we swam ashore while the hull sat perfectly still.
Travel
Divers raised a rusted anchor from the wreck, its iron flukes still buried deep in the harbor mud.
History
He waited until the fishing boat let go its anchor, then shot the chain uncoiling into green water.
Photography
Dragging an anchor across seagrass tears up a meadow that took decades to grow, so the bay now provides mooring buoys.
Environment
The chapter opens with the crew hauling the anchor at dawn, and the narrator counts every turn of the capstan.
Literature
The research vessel's anchor drops on a winch controlled from the bridge, and a sensor reports when the flukes bite.
Technology
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- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
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