Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg were anchoring the Nationals’ rotation.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 5, 2022
I wasn’t gonna let us do this if I didn’t feel really strongly about the thing that we were anchoring our brand on and how we were going to move forward.
From The Verge ● Oct. 28, 2021
Jones and Bradley were anchoring the center of midfield but hardly providing a ready conduit to connect to their attackers, while the occasional set piece chances they earned for Michael Bradley were ending disappointingly.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 15, 2016
Two hundred yards away from the ship, Courtenay and Tollemache were anchoring a flat framework, built of spare hatches and secured by wooden cross-pieces.
From The Captain of the Kansas by Louis Tracy
While the ships were anchoring here a great flood of fresh water came down with a great roar, nearly destroying the little Spanish ships and greatly alarming both Columbus and his men.
From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge
