HULL in a Sentence

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26 example sentences for HULL, such as:

1. An these here hull woods is a reg'lar mess.
2. The outer surface of ship's hull is very hard.
3. In dry dock, we scraped off the incrustation of dirt and barnacles that covered the hull of the ship.
4. Yer jest one little feller amongst a hull lot of others, and yeh've got to keep quiet an do what they tell yeh.

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 Meanings and Examples of HULL
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hull
 n.  outer covering of anything, particularly of a nut or of grain; outer skin of a kernel; husk
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Long seasoned and weather-stained in the typhoons and calms of all four oceans, her old hull's complexion was darkened like a French grenadier's, who has alike fought in Egypt and Siberia.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
2  Dashing his forehead against her hull, he so stove her in, that in less than "ten minutes" she settled down and fell over.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
3  But I should not much wonder if, in the darkness of that early hour of the morning, the shock was after all caused by an unseen whale vertically bumping the hull from beneath.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
4  So much so, that now taking some alarm, the captain, making all sail, stood away for the nearest harbor among the islands, there to have his hull hove out and repaired.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
5  The few sleepers below in their bunks were often startled by the sharp slapping of their tails against the hull, within a few inches of the sleepers' hearts.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
6  He makes his berth an Aladdin's lamp, and lays him down in it; so that in the pitchiest night the ship's black hull still houses an illumination.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 97. The Lamp.
7  Don't go a-thinkin you can lick the hull rebel army at the start, because yeh can't.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  Yer jest one little feller amongst a hull lot of others, and yeh've got to keep quiet an do what they tell yeh.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
9  Of course it might happen that the hull kit-and-boodle might start and run, if some big fighting came first-off, and then again they might stay and fight like fun.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
10  Of course they ain't never been under fire yet, and it ain't likely they'll lick the hull rebel army all-to-oncet the first time; but I think they'll fight better than some, if worse than others.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
11  An these here hull woods is a reg'lar mess.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
12  "Mebbe yeh think yeh fit th hull battle yestirday, Fleming," he remarked.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
13  Overhead it was a deep Indian red and starless, and south-eastward it grew brighter to a glowing scarlet where, cut by the horizon, lay the huge hull of the sun, red and motionless.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
14  The hull had received no damage on the starboard, but some of the planks had been unnailed here and there, according to custom, to permit of air entering the hold.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
15  This is the land of Shadows, of Sleep, and slumberous Night; no living body may the Stygian hull convey.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
Example Sentence:
1  Divers trying to raise the bodies of 118 sailors from the sunken Kursk nuclear submarine were near to finishing a man-sized hole in the hull on Tuesday.
2  In dry dock, we scraped off the incrustation of dirt and barnacles that covered the hull of the ship.
3  The outer surface of ship's hull is very hard.