Gaping wide, helpless, with all defenses down, other torpedoes entered the stricken hulk and completed its destruction even before they could be recalled.
And suddenly a frightened pencil of flame stabbed brilliantly from the black hulk of the enemy.
He had discovered that someone had been there before them and had evidently searched the hulk in a most drastic fashion, for they had emptied the hold and had cleared off almost every movable article of value.
I realise now how you must have felt that night on the old hulk off Bougainville, when you wanted me to jump into the sea and die with you.
Then he thought of Gabrielle's strange talk on the hulk about shadow-women and of all that Everard had just told him about his wife's being haunted by similar shadows.
At the Isle of France, the Trio was condemned; her hulk being, in truth, much worse than my own, docked though I was.
They passed the hulk of a steamboat round which some people had established a sort of camp.
The hulkof a torpedo-boat was continued by some cast-iron piping.
Before sunset Will went with a small escort to the top of a neighbouring hill to see that all was well with the hulk of the schooner.
The naked hulkalongside came, And the twain were casting dice.
The naked hulkalongside came, And the twain were casting dice; 'The game is done!
You and I, Theophilus, would give a Rajah's ransom just to hear the fellows whoop it up for us like that, and it has no more effect on that sodden hulk of a Thor than bombarding an English super-dreadnaught with Roman candles!
The ships that come hither usually careen at their first coming; here being a hulk belonging to the king for that purpose.
This hulk is under the charge of the superintendent I spoke of, who has a certain sum of money for every ship that careens by her.
The grand old hulk Was drawn up for the citizens' wonderment At Deptford.
It took six weeks to reach Portsmouth Roads, and on the morning after our arrival, I was transferred with some others to the hulk Proteus.
For the benefit of those who do not know what a hulk is, I may explain that it is an old dismasted vessel, a two or three decker, which is moored fast so as to be almost as immovable as a stone building.
The furniture of the hulk was very simple; it consisted of a long bench placed against the walls, and four others in the middle.
And suddenly a frightful pencil of flame stabbed brilliantly from the black hulk of the enemy.
Softly, quietly the bow of the hulk slid up and nuzzled gently among the wreckage.
The keen blade severed the last inch of wood, the hulk pitched forward, and the mast with its boom and its tangle of rigging and canvas rolled from Dan and plunged into the sea.
The hulk had slued around and was driving before the tempest, whither he did not know.
But it was not needed; thehulk on the floor never moved.
Within its long hulk three motionless forms lay in a welter of blood that smeared their officers' badges, and a dozen gibbering men labored at the controls of their craft.
Campbell and Wilson had hurriedly finished a copy for Captain Norman of the notes I had made in my memorandum-book when on the expedition to the south-west, the Firefly hulk was abandoned.
There's a whole merchant's venture of Bourdeaux stuff in him; you have not seen a hulk better stuff'd in the hold.
Bourdeaux stuff in him; you have not seen a hulk better stuffed in the hold.
On the 14th, they set fire to the hulks, the Loyal London and the Great James, and carried off the hulk of the Royal Charles, after the English had twice tried to destroy her by fire.
I knew what that meant, for the Tartar was the receiving hulk where they took the pressed men.
At last all about the hulk there was spread a sort of magic circle of smooth, oily water.
As he sprang, he felt the hulk drop from under his feet in a wild yaw.
Outlined dimly in the distant gloom was the hulk of the steamer.
The leader of the Black Squad, a huge hulk of a fellow, stripped to the waist and smeared hideously with coal-dust, sprang forward.
Then through a number of smacks, some schooners, a brig, a coal hulk and many small boats, they ran in at the little wooden jetty that forked out over a reef of low rocks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hulk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
