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Meanings of sheet anchor in English
Catalan
àncora de salvació Usage of sheet anchor in English
1
Her love was a sheet anchor which held in the stormiest seas.
2
One lives at the East-end, and is sheet anchor to Whittingtonia.
3
For moral authority at that conjuncture was the sheet anchor of the principal delegates.
4
His caprices remain the sheet anchor of the would-be virtuoso.
5
The sheet anchor was let go, and alone now kept the brig from destruction.
6
That it is her sheet anchor, sure and fast?
7
Woman was the sheet anchor of the Church.
8
They have no sheet anchor out to windward.
9
Indeed, he was reflecting as he walked in the dusk, Mrs. Spaniel was now his sheet anchor.
10
Yet, contemporaneously, the welfare state was established and soon became the new sheet anchor of the Anglo-Scottish union.
11
The genial, if somewhat abstracted, motherliness of her welcome had been, indeed, his sheet anchor throughout the evening.
12
This doctrine, consistently acted upon by Europe, has been the sheet anchor of the Ottoman empire for a century.
13
The sheet anchor (= shoot anchor).
14
The sheet anchor was then weighed, when, on its coming above water, it was found that both the flukes had gone.
15
Our public schools therefore form one of the chief cornerstones of our American republic; they are the sheet anchor of our hopes.
16
They instinctively rallied to uphold Law, the slow product of centuries of growth, the sheet anchor of Society in a time of change.