Noun : After the death of his wife he lost his moorings. From Dictionary.com.
After the battling for 20 minutes, the coaches took the nets off the moorings, which is always the signal for players that their legs are about to burn. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
He then cited Edmund Burke, William F. Buckley, and Ronald Reagan as the "moorings" of the GOP. From Wordnik.com. [Keep the Change] Reference
Gradually the company began to regain its moorings. From Wordnik.com. [Kicking The Habit] Reference
Boats broke from their moorings and battered the shore. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
We cast off the moorings, and soon after anchored at Spithead. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
The machine was brought safely to her old moorings within an hour. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
The ship would blast away from its moorings, head out toward Mars. From Wordnik.com. [Gold in the Sky] Reference
We swam out to the inner tube that was anchored to one of the moorings. From Wordnik.com. [We Are Awake] Reference
I could feel the tug of the moorings as my enemies got into their boat. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
Their canoe with most of their household goods had broken from its moorings in. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Bolderhead Harbor to break away from moorings and go on an involuntary cruise. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
She could also reinvigorate a party that seems to have totally lost its moorings. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: A Lurch Left For The Democrats] Reference
After much manoeuvring we took up our old moorings in the harbor, at the foot of the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Once upon a time it was my grandmother who became untethered, loosened from her moorings. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Two Generations of Dementia] Reference
His tie had slipped its moorings and was gradually working its way to the top of his collar. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
The scale of the SocGen crisis reinforces the public perception of a system losing its moorings. From Wordnik.com. [France’s New Anti-Hero] Reference
The captive balloon tore madly at its moorings, and seemed like some wild thing struggling to be free. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
Churches in Canada, so the orthodox people have cut themselves quite loose from their ancient moorings. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Reality is loosed from its moorings, and the human observer becomes an agent in determining what's there. From Wordnik.com. [Fanfare For The Common Man] Reference
At last the last row is in — only to discover four candies here and there have all sprung their moorings. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
But Obama's victories are reversible if Republicans use imagination and get back their ideological moorings. From Wordnik.com. [Fact And Comment] Reference
Steamboat after steamboat was driven from its moorings and tossed like a drop of spray in the boiling stream. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
One man, a black, lashed himself to the foremast, and kept watch in case the ship should break loose from her moorings. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
The 15-year-old hero, Howie (Paul Franklin Dano), is a disaffected suburban kid who's lost all the moorings in his life. From Wordnik.com. [Movies: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter] Reference
And Vidal Reade, wracked by reconsideration, removed from amoral moorings, alone with the dirt and the fence and the wire. From Wordnik.com. [Yr Wire] Reference
The cracked chimney fell from its moorings, and, striking a teacup, spattered broken glass over the table like hailstones. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
She felt soothed, cradled, protected by that lapping sea of melody that drifted her off her moorings, out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
Swept away in the same tide that pulled out all the moorings from his life, and everything else that had been tethered to them. From Wordnik.com. [Pretty White Gloves] Reference
A second later the big "sausage" leaped upward, and the boys did not need to be told that it had broken free from its moorings. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs] Reference
After a decade of waiting for the first "Internet election," it's finally here, and we're adrift from all the old-media moorings. From Wordnik.com. [All Umbrage All the Time] Reference
A single red lamp glowed dully far to the west; it belonged to a steamer that they had seen come to her moorings in the afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
It would with quiet, ruthless strength, tear some prized possessions from their moorings and send them adrift down stream and out. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on Power] Reference
Soon after we leave this infernal region we hear a constant roar like that coming from a large steamer about to leave its moorings. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
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