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Example sentences for "small vessels"

  • And from this port of Guida these spices and drugs were transported in small vessels to Suez, as has been already said.

  • They also ship there much rice in Moorish ships for Aden, also pepper, which henceforward the earth begins to produce, but little of it, and better than all the other which the Malabars bring to this place in small vessels.

  • In small vessels he is sometimes called the boatman.

  • An additional part laced to the foot of the jibs, or other fore-and-aft sails, in small vessels in moderate weather, to gather more wind.

  • A command in small vessels to work the pump-brake, or to pump briskly.

  • A kind of small sloop or barge; small vessels of war formerly without forecastles.

  • But these houses are all of wood merely, and they are put up in the morning and taken down in the evening.

  • This Aden is the port to which many of the ships of India come with their cargoes; and from this haven the merchants carry the goods a distance of seven days further in small vessels.

  • The latter has: "They put the goods in small vessels, which proceed on a river about seven days.

  • Greece supplied the most if not all Constantine's vessels: the maritime cities of this country sent their respective quotas to the Piraeus; and their united forces only amounted to 200 small vessels.

  • His first object was to fit out a fleet of 1000 small vessels, to protect the coast of Italy from the incursions of the African Vandals and the inhabitants of the Eastern empire.

  • Having removed all that their ships could carry, the town was set on fire, together with twenty ships and many small vessels.

  • At length however he sent a second reinforcement under Antonio de Menezes in 24 small vessels.

  • The wind, which for some days had been fair and moderate from the eastward, then came on to blow a gale which would make landing impossible off Niagara, and even navigation dangerous for the small vessels.

  • The wádang or báyur, a light and tolerably durable wood, is employed for masts and spars of small vessels; but the surface must be well covered with resinous substances to prevent its splitting.

  • The faradic current may also be employed on account of its action upon the muscles and small vessels.

  • The internal hemorrhoidal veins also communicate freely with the branches of the internal iliac around the trigone of the urinary bladder by means of small vessels, which pass through the prostate gland and seminal vesicles.

  • Defn: A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

  • Defn: An opening in the side of small vessels of war, near the surface of the water, to facilitate rowing in calm weather.

  • A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "small vessels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    small animals; small arches; small cord; small cottage; small craft; small creek; small fort; small fragment; small fragments; small girl; small gold; small hand; small hill; small holdings; small lakes; small library; small notes; small picture; small pinch; small portions; small scale; small schooner; small silver; small supply; small system; small village