Example Sentences

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Bulkheads create buoyancy, so if the boat does tip, water fills the cockpit but not the whole boat.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2022

Bulkheads, steering, fuel tanks, decks and running gear are stripped out.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bulkheads, the upright walls compartmentalizing each vessel were torn down and piled in cabins and forecastles; the bulkheads' destruction at once created fuel and improved draft for the fire to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bulkheads, cabinets and doors are sleekly crafted in a high-gloss cherry laminate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bulkheads should be so spaced that any two adjacent compartments of a ship might be flooded without sinking.

From Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters by Marshall, Logan