hull

Example Sentences

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Holes were cut into the hulls to sink the vessels and they were then filled with sediment, mostly mud, to weigh them down and secure them.

From BBC

I squint at the ships anchored in the harbor, their flags furled, their hulls bobbing in the sea’s waves.

From Literature

"You have to have a hull form that breaks ice by bending it downwards," he says.

From BBC

Moscow sent ships to escort another tanker, known as Bella 1, which was sailing under a sloppily painted Russian flag on its hull, as the U.S. military tracked it across the Atlantic Ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal

For another, their armor protected their hulls against attack — the design rationale being that they would chiefly engage enemy vessels in battleship-to-battleship engagements — but their decks were susceptible to assault from the skies.

From Los Angeles Times