10 examples of unmoored in sentences

On 4th February the ships unmoored and sailed from the bay, steering to the north in hopes of finding a better anchorage.

One day, therefore, when his father and uncle were chopping fences in the woods, he unmoored the little boat, and rowed off.

those same courtesans by contrivances made the only son of Kasyapa enter their bark, and unmoored the vessel.

On the other hand, the people of the Ringdove were kept at work mending old sails until the hour to "knock off work" arrived; then the ship unmoored.

This stanza was marked in pencil: 'Jenny June,' then I said, 'let us linger no more On the banks of the beautiful river; Let the boat be unmoored, and muffled the oar, And we'll steal into heaven together.

and we unmoored the old boat and pulled down to Albany for a cargo west.

He unmoored a boat, and we were rowed across a subterranean lake which was nothing more or less than liquid salt.

I then unmoored, got under sail, and brought two boats a-head to row me close to the Greenwich; but he being open to a valley and a breeze, made the best of his way from me; which an Ostender in our company, of twenty-two guns, seeing, did the same, though the captain had promised heartily to engage with us, and I believe would have been as good as his word, if Captain Kirby had kept his.

But now that the religious world has unmoored itself, now that it is beginning to see the truth and beauty of natural science and to look with friendship upon conceptions of evolution, I suspect that this temporary antagonism, which we have fallen into a careless way of regarding as an everlasting antagonism, will come to an end perhaps quicker than we realize.

When she had so spoken, calmly, firmly, as if it were impossible that she should be moved or agitated by such speech as this she had heard, Clarice walked away to the beach, unmoored her father's boat, and rowed out into the Bay.

10 examples of  unmoored  in sentences