Example Sentences

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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

ONE by one were incoming, were folding wings, were anchoring, Spanish ships.

From 1492 by Johnston, Mary

They were heated with sun and brick and argument; a hundred and ten British ships of war were anchoring and at anchor over on the ocean side of Staten Island.

From The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution by Prichard, Sarah J.