The captain carefully eased the huge ocean liner into a narrow berth.    From LearnThat.org. 

The Bearcats earned their title berth with a 50-28 semifinal win against Yough.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Hempfield earned its title berth with a 40-31 win against Albert Gallatin (4-3).    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

The Buccaneers earned their title berth with a 50-14 win against Kittanning (10-5).    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

West Shamokin earned its title berth with victories against Leechburg (25-4, 25-10, 25-11).    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

The Warriors earned their title berth with a narrow 27-20 win against Franklin Regional (9-3).    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

The Blue Devils earned their title berth with a convincing 59-13 win against Keystone Oaks (4-2).    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Philadelphia's magic number for clinching a playoff berth is three.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com] Reference

Bure's All-Star berth is the reward for his development as the Calgary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bure brothers finally on the same team] Reference

A BCS berth is still possible as the Big 12 are only allotted two spots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another crazy Saturday can shake up volatile BCS picture] Reference

The Red Sox are close behind, but the AL wild-card berth is more realistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Red Sox's young Epstein has wisdom beyond years] Reference

Gallery: SOLID AS A ROCK: SSC knocks off Greene County to earn 4A state title berth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homepage] Reference

You'd think an American League-leading 15 victories and an All-Star berth is penthouse stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Shouldering the load] Reference

She loved the "little house" as she called her berth, and for an hour she lay peering out at the moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Middle Border] Reference

While Graham will be gunning for its first state title berth, Pittsburg is vying for its second appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Times Record News Stories] Reference

"People were trying to make it that type of game (Florida-Alabama for a national title berth) back in September," he said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Gallery: SOLID AS A ROCK SSC knocks off Greene County to earn 4A state title berth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homepage] Reference

His companion in the berth was a younger man, smaller, slighter, but of much the same stamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rome Express] Reference

Now, this is still a virtually guaranteed playoff berth, which is why I'm saying the Mets can rest easy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mets Geek] Reference

Surely enough Freddie Bobbsey had fallen out of bed, or his "berth," as beds are called in sleeping cars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference

Each was in a "berth" along the wall, a long, coffinlike contraption hermetically sealed against the outside environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Garden of Rama]

A World Series berth is the prize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pitching abandons Cards at wrong time] Reference

The Olympic berth is virtually assured.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Drury's minor miracle nets weekly honor] Reference

Boise State making case for BCS title berth.    From Wordnik.com.  [KTVB.com Local News] Reference

He continues to occupy his long-term berth on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Splintered Sunrise] Reference

Thorgunna had a "berth," apparently partitioned off, in the hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Homer and His Age] Reference

Has some kind of berth with the firm, they tell me, partner or somethin '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Harbor] Reference

You see, they might corral us with the captain, and that's no kind of berth for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrecker] Reference

He speaks of a "berth" of timber, a good place for him to get into, just as a worm might.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Maine Woods] Reference

It ain't -- well, by the crawlin 'prophets,' tain't the kind of berth you've been used to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Harbor] Reference

No way I trusted myself to back this boat into its berth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Get Outta My Way!] Reference

That means the navy can scale back its fleet and the bases to berth them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military's Big Shutdown] Reference

With the Olympic berth on the line, our boys got shellacked by Mexico 4-0.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr Gazing: The Last Miracle?] Reference

His blunder allowed second-place finisher Craig Stevens to snag an Olympics berth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olympics: Thorpedo--Still Afloat] Reference

Last week, in fact, Japan's crew hauled a diver out of the water just yards from the Nippon's berth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Duel In The Sun] Reference

All of a sudden along comes this berth in the Olympics, '' said the team's all-time leading scorer, Cammi Granato, 26.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams And Nightmares] Reference

In a classic Washington case of hubris overcoming judgment, he was looking to protect his berth in a Kerry administration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capitol Letter: Much Ado About Little] Reference