The Chandos, sailing from this port within the past two weeks, lightered thirteen hundred tons.
The ship anchors several miles from shore--when the fierce storms which prevail in this vicinity will permit it to anchor at all--and passengers and freight are lightered ashore.
Steamers cannot land at Kayak, and passengers and freight are lightered ashore; and when this is accomplished without disaster or great difficulty, the trip is spoken of as an exceptional one.
Here the steamers lightered or floated ashore men, horses, and freight.
The rest of the crew were forbidden off the decks except to sleep under them, for it was intended, as soon as the bait was lightered aboard, to make sail to the Banks again.
During the night the barrels of fresh bait had been lightered to the Lass, and there was nothing for it but to make sail and get back on the Banks as soon as possible, leaving Code to his fate but carrying on the work he had begun.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lightered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
