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Example sentences for "hull"

Lexicographically close words:
huli; hulk; hulke; hulking; hulks; hullaballoo; hullabaloo; hulled; huller; hulling
  1. Then they'd get a durn site more'an they'd use in a hull lifetime.

  2. We've swep the hull State like a averlanche, and the Republercan partie is deder'n a dore nale.

  3. His affeckshuns is all lavished on good lookin horses, and he'd giv more for one of them, than he wuld for Lillie Lan-kry or the hull curboodel of perfesshunal buties.

  4. Its leeder Mr. Gilley is the dubble-extract of rottinness, and the hull rank and file of the party is in a fit state to be condemned by the fresh meet inspector.

  5. This mornin' the intervue come out in the Buster, and the hull corpse of noosgathururs of the other papers is detaled in divishuns to wach all the semerneries in the hope of interviewin' the gost of James G.

  6. But Gussy wouldn't tumbel if the hull of Broadway'd fall on him, cos he's mashed on a lot of dudines wot do the balleyin act in the academme.

  7. Now I'll begin to record my doins on your pages, so that, shuld the toes of my boots be applide to the patent bucket early in my useful carreer, the hull wurld'll kno wot a treassure socieaty has lost.

  8. Now the hull offis is mad at me, 'cos I ain't a walk-in' cyclopeeda of typograffickal turm.

  9. The hull bisness was blowd up like the upper half of a belloon, ony a little more so.

  10. The hull of the Sprite had to be strengthened.

  11. That's a pretty stiff engine for the Sprite, but the hull could be strengthened, and we could put it in and get about ninety or ninety-five per cent.

  12. These girders extended as far forward and aft as the curve of the hull would allow.

  13. The hull had already been covered with canvas, given two coats of lead and oil and rubbed down.

  14. Would the hull stand the strain with the engine urging the wheel at its best?

  15. The stench of bilge sickened us as the rising water in her hull forced up the heavy and fetid gases.

  16. One could almost feel the settling of the crazy, ruptured hull as the moments passed and each time I turned my head to glance back with a fascinated impulse at the smoke-stack I could see that its line tilted further from the vertical.

  17. Then they went over the entire hull on the exterior, tightening it up, scraping, sandpapering, and rubbing until their hands were blistered and their arms ached.

  18. Just then a crowd of boys, including Henry Burns and Harvey, Tom and Bob and the Warrens, went by the door, coming up from shore, where they had been at work on the hull of the yacht Surprise.

  19. The morning after the Viking had left the Thoroughfare, in company with the Spray, the boys set to work in earnest upon the hull of the Surprise, with the tools that had been left for them.

  20. They made us keep company till the night of the 15th, lying all the time a hull in waiting for prizes, 30 leagues S.

  21. Hull reached Detroit, and four days later, with his entire command, crossed the river and occupied Sandwich.

  22. They reported that, after waiting upon Hull for two hours without being granted an interview, they were handed the following reply: "General Hull is prepared to meet any force brought against him, and accept any consequences.

  23. The "Grand Army of the West," by which pretentious title Hull had seen fit to describe his invading force, melted like mist before the rising sun.

  24. But do not, because we were successful at Detroit in stampeding the United States troops, cherish the impression that General Hull is a sample of American soldiery.

  25. If destroyed by Hull they must be rebuilt, for the batteries there must cover our crossing and cannonade the fort while we advance upon it.

  26. Take a pianny an' enough Winchesters an' you can civilize the hull of China.

  27. In passing Vicksburg, she was damaged in the hull and had a steam-pipe cut away, but this was soon repaired.

  28. Steering our boat toward the spars, which loomed up above the fog clear and distinct, in about a mile we came to the black hull of the strange monster, the long-expected and most welcome steamer California.

  29. Of course she could not sink, being already on the bottom, and the only question was as to the strength of hull to stand the bumping and straining.

  30. O, it's that chap McGowan, I expect; he's got pretty much the hull of everything.

  31. When one of the trees was well stripped, the young gentleman mounted into another, while Fleda set herself to hull and gather up the nuts under the one first beaten.

  32. Yes — it's dreadful chill in there when the stove aint heated, and she sits there the hull time.

  33. I don't believe he's done a hand's turn himself on the land the hull season!

  34. On the afternoon of the same day the Yermak sustained several violent concussions, and the hull was lifted one foot.

  35. The steamer Louise commanded by Captain DAHL, with a cargo of iron, olive oil, and sugar, the same year made the first voyage from England to Tobolsk, starting from Hull on the 18th July and arriving at Tobolsk on the 20th September.

  36. I saw a sail going south-westward--looked like a schooner but her hull never came up.

  37. The ship is almost hull down," said Davidson presently, apropos of nothing.

  38. Then the hull has to be transferred from the inclined plane of block piles, on which it was built, to a cradle, on which it moves down the sliding-ways into the water.

  39. All means that strengthen a well-built hull longitudinally have also been made to add their quota to its transverse strength.

  40. Her hull was that of a regular sea-going steamer, thoroughly fit to go foreign, and not the hull of an ordinary sailing ship, like the Savannah, with paddles hung over the sides in a calm.

  41. The hull has changed more and more in its proportions between length and breadth since the supplanting of wood by steel.

  42. But this improvement did not extend to giving the hull anything like its most suitable shape.

  43. One of the best builders at Quebec was a French Canadian, whose beautiful clipper ship Brunelle, named after himself, logged over fourteen knots an hour and left many a smart sailer, and steamer too, hull down astern.

  44. These blocks are short, thick timbers, arranged in graduated piles, so that they form an inclined plane of over one in twenty, from which the completed hull can slide slowly into the water, stern first.

  45. Page, of the Hull Subscription Library, who has also prepared the Index.

  46. And then when the hull bunch of the spalpeens went crazy and tried to find out what had become of you, it wasn't long until I found out that I was all alone in that place, the rest having gone in search of you.

  47. And unless he can produce witnesses to testify to what he says about them air escapes, I move that the hull speech he made be strucken out, your honor.

  48. Then I heard a funny little tapping sound all round the hull of the submarine, like little soft hands it was, tapping, tapping, tapping.

  49. It has a very thick outer shell, the hull, and the hull comes off the nut itself quite clean.

  50. As she forged ahead through the heavy swell a great white wave streamed over her bows, being made more conspicuous by her pitch black hull and the three black funnels belching enormous columns of dense black smoke.

  51. The cruiser leading and the cruiser acting as a rearguard were both hull down on the horizon.

  52. Some ships would be hull down and some with only the masts and smoke showing.

  53. The hull was uninjured, but a few planks had been unnailed here and there to let air in, as is usually the case.

  54. During previous voyages barnacles had collected on her hull to such an extent that she lost half her speed; she had been taken into dry dock the year previous to scrape off these barnacles, and then put to sea again.

  55. Hull half a gallon of ripe strawberries, cover them liberally with sugar and let stand to extract the juice.

  56. Wash well and hull a quart of fine ripe strawberries, add them with their own weight in sugar to the brandy, let stand till raspberries and cherries are ripe, then put in a quart of each, along with their weight in sugar.

  57. Suddenly a man cried out, "By gosh, J'rome promised to give the hull on't away!

  58. With her hull still quivering under the pulsations of her engines she had run aground on a mud-bank on the port-hand side of the river.

  59. Hence, in the event of a hole being blown in the shell of the outer hull our stability will hardly be affected.

  60. Straight as arrows sped the two deadly missiles, but instead of striking the hull of the Pelikan they exploded simultaneously against the rocks.

  61. All that was visible of each of the monitors consisted of a low-lying hull of great beam, on which was placed a turret mounting two gigantic guns.

  62. The hull was painted a light yellow, with a broad black band.

  63. She, apparently, is done for, unless the river forms a fresh bed round the hull of the sunken tramp.

  64. Her deck appearance is that of an oblong raft, and the section of her hull is that of a flattened W.

  65. A model of her hull was included in Messrs.

  66. A novel feature in the hull of so small a boat is its division into water-tight compartments by transverse and longitudinal bulkheads, composed of galvanised steel plates riveted to the steel frames.

  67. This boat differs from its kinsfolk of the southern ocean, the point of widest departure being that the hulls are connected by flexible means, so that each hull can adjust itself to the surface of the water it moves in.

  68. They were in the shade cast by the hull of the Astronef.

  69. Redgrave went down to the engine-room, and presently the Astronef changed her course, and in a few minutes was hanging with her polished hull bathed in sunlight, like a star suspended over the unfathomable gulf of darkness below.

  70. The craft appeared to be flat-bottomed, and for about a third of her length amidships the upper half of her hull was covered with a curving, domelike roof of glass.

  71. As he said this about twenty streams of an intense bluish light suddenly shot up all round them, concentrating themselves upon the hull of the Astronef, which was now about a mile and a half from the surface.

  72. We can't get through that hull lining to repair it in space, if it does go before we land.

  73. All wore pale robes with high collars that rose stiffly behind their domed heads; all were old, their faces lined with many wrinkles, and seven of the eight were as bald as the hull of the Swiftwing.

  74. But some of the older generation--I had a professor in training school, funny old chap, bald as the hull of the Swiftwing.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hull" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    argosy; bark; boat; body; boll; bottom; bran; bucket; burr; capsule; case; chaff; craft; follicle; hulk; hull; husk; jacket; keel; legume; packet; peel; pod; rind; shell; shuck; skin; tub; vessel