The stays and backstays, when the Shannon engaged the Chesapeake, were snaked with half-inch rope from fathom to fathom, to prevent their falling if shot away.
An octagonal piece of timber supplied to replace a yard-arm if shot away.
Are rather smaller than the stays, and are placed above them, being intended as substitutes should the main one be shot away.
To follow was impossible, as the Lily had every brace and bowline, all her after backstays, several of her lower shrouds, and other parts of her rigging, shot away.
All the time spars, rigging, and blocks were falling from aloft, shot away by the hot fire of the enemy.
Down came the foreyard, shot away in the slings, causing, it was very evident, considerable confusion on board.
Nelson, as usual, had hoisted several flags, lest one should be shot away.
Nelson had six colours flying in different parts of his rigging, lest they should be shot away; that they should be struck, no British admiral considers as a possibility.
But at that moment her jib stay was shot away, and her head-sails becoming becalmed, she went off very slowly.
But having determined upon anchoring we should have bent a spring on to the ring of the anchor, instead of to the cable, where it was exposed, and could be shot away as fast as put on.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shot away" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
