How to Use towline in a Sentence

towline

noun
Definition of towlinenext
  • In the middle of the towline are team dogs, who make up the core of the group and pull the sled.
    — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The towline snapped and the bow section of the New Carissa was again adrift at sea.
    — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Once the larger boat dropped the towline, the smaller one capsized.
    — Jim Yardley and Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 29 May 2016
  • The towline was severed in half during a cyclone about 50 miles off the coast.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Caught in a northwest gale, not only did the towline snap, but so did Atlanta's sails, which left it at the mercy of the storm.
    — Maxime Tamsett, CNN, 4 Mar. 2022
  • The Artic Sounder newspaper reported the hunters were in a boat on a towline and flipped in rough water.
    — Rachel D'oro, The Seattle Times, 9 Oct. 2018
  • A section was towed to sea for sinking, but the towline snapped, sending it back to another beach.
    — OregonLive.com, 14 July 2017
  • The raging storm caused the towline connecting the ships to snap, leaving them at the mercy of Mother Nature.
    — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2022
  • While Alaparthi and the children were aloft, strong winds prevented them from being winched back to the boat, and Couch cut the towline, the commission said.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The two ships encountered a powerful storm, which snapped the towline connecting them, leaving Barge 129 at the mercy of the winds.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The towline snapped, causing a collision between the two vessels.
    — Taylor Nicioli, CNN, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Within a week, a new towline was attached and the bow was towed 280 miles offshore where it was loaded with plastic explosives.
    — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
  • However, the other tug had a winch motor failure while recovering the towline from the tanker.
    — Robert Archibald, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2018
  • An arrest warrant accused the captain, Daniel Gavin Couch, 49, of not checking the weather before the May 30 trip and then cutting the towline to his passengers’ parasail during strong winds.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 23 Sep. 2022

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