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Example sentences for "between decks"

  • A wooden bed-frame suspended from the beams of a ship for the officers, between decks.

  • Its use is to prevent the water from running down between decks.

  • The place in a hold, or between decks, where the cables are coiled away.

  • The great majority of the men and boys were doubtless provided with bunks only, "between decks," but it seems that John Billington had a cabin there.

  • No distinction of rank was made by the jailors on the Jersey, but the prisoners themselves agreed to allow the officers to occupy the extreme afterpart of the ship, between decks, called the gun-room.

  • In the middle of the ship, between decks, was raised a platform of boards about two and a half feet high, for those prisoners to sleep on who had no hammocks.

  • On Sundays Divine service was regularly performed between decks; the morning and evening services being read on alternate Sundays.

  • Between decks was a repetition of the scene above, and it was with the greatest difficulty we could move from one part of the ship to the other.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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