Sample Sentences forballast (auto-selected)
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The water was used as ballast, extra weight to keep the ship on the ground.† (source)
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It had jettisoned four thousand years of memories like so much ballast.† (source)
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The balloon, freed of the small sour ballast, uprose.† (source)
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Because you would make for good ballast.† (source)
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To try to stop it from flipping, Louie and Phil bailed in water as ballast, positioned themselves on opposite sides to balance their weight, and lay on their backs to keep the center of gravity low.† (source)
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In the end, the merchant gave his youngest son a rickety sloop with raggedy sails, a toothless crew, and empty sacks for ballast.† (source)
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The parts of the ship below the waterline are used for engines, fuel, and ballast, causing a lot of noise, vibration, and interference.† (source)
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Pattie then snapped off the bright fluorescent ballasts.† (source)
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The hammock, the one which had been Billy's bed when alive, having already been ballasted with shot and otherwise prepared to serve for his canvas coffin, the last offices of the sea-undertakers, the Sail-Maker's Mates, were now speedily completed.† (source)
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She spent some time at the periscope looking around the harbour and got the hang of that, but the ballasting and trim controls were beyond her and she was not much interested.† (source)
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The big tankers from the United States or England always carried fresh water to us in ballast, and then it was distilled again so that we could drink it.† (source)
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Overhead, the ballasts hummed and the fluorescents flickered and lit.† (source)
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She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.† (source)
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They decided either one of us would work for ballast, but feared Adah's handicap would prevent her holding on, and if she fell in the river the precious battery would also be lost.† (source)
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Joyce was a reasonably confident replacement, having learned from Vera how to do the electric work that was required on a frequent or daily basis—changing eight-foot-long fluorescents, replacing the ballasts of light fixtures, installing new exit signs and fixtures, and checking circuit boards.† (source)
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Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.† (source)
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