Example Sentences

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When he slipped near the top and was belayed back to the ground, Ondra suspected it was good enough to get him to Thursday with his medal hopes intact.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

Cobin belayed her while the girls looked on in a perilous moment.

From Washington Times • May 3, 2020

He seized the rope, burned his hands as he belayed it around an outcropping rock and stopped the fall.

From Time Magazine Archive

We belayed the ropes, and struggled aft to where the weaker watch were hauling manfully.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.

Through this block he rove the end of the launch’s painter, and belayed it on board, thus causing her to ride to the wreckage by a sort of slip-line.

From The Pirate Island A Story of the South Pacific by Staniland, C.J.