Example Sentences

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"If you don't have that, it leaves you kind of anchorless at sea," he says.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2023

Freddie seems unmoored, anchorless, neither French nor Korean.

From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2023

That allows her to return to her own life, which, free of Houston’s gravitational pull, is anchorless.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2019

The anchorless PrPSc is highly infectious without causing toxicity112, and in other mammalian prion systems, the infectivity titre and toxicity seem to be uncoupled113.

From Nature • Nov. 8, 2016

A hand somewhere struck the gramophone arm and sent the silver needle on its way through the whirling, black grooves, like something bobbing, anchorless, in the middle of the sea.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin