VESSEL in a Sentence
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212 example sentences for VESSEL, such as:
1. The vessel reached port the next morning.
2. Space craft is a vessel to travel out air.
3. Where the water is shallow, no vessel will ride.
4. The blood vessels may leak fluid, which distorts vision.
5. Don't look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains.
2. Space craft is a vessel to travel out air.
3. Where the water is shallow, no vessel will ride.
4. The blood vessels may leak fluid, which distorts vision.
5. Don't look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains.
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Meanings and Examples of VESSEL
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vessel
n. a craft designed for water transportation
n. an object used as a container (especially for liquids)
Classic Sentence: (178 in 12 pages)
1 As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If, got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island.
2 "Morrel," said Dantes, approaching, "the vessel now rides at anchor, and I am at your service."
3 Asked me questions about the vessel, the time she left Marseilles, the course she had taken, and what was her cargo.
4 Why, as for that, I could only know what I was told respecting the merchandise with which the vessel was laden.
5 I landed here, regulated the affairs of the vessel, and hastened to visit my affianced bride, whom I found more lovely than ever.
6 The boat they were in could not make a long voyage; there was no vessel at anchor outside the harbor; he thought, perhaps, they were going to leave him on some distant point.
7 Then I felt that my vessel was a vain refuge, that trembled and shook before the tempest.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
8 He turned his eyes towards the soup which the jailer had brought, rose, staggered towards it, raised the vessel to his lips, and drank off the contents with a feeling of indescribable pleasure.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
Context Highlight In Chapter 15. Number 34 and Number 27.
9 It seemed to him that the island trembled to its base, and that it would, like a vessel at anchor, break moorings, and bear him off into the centre of the storm.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
10 Dantes from his rocky perch saw the shattered vessel, and among the fragments the floating forms of the hapless sailors.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
11 The red cap of one of the sailors hung to a point of the rock and some timbers that had formed part of the vessel's keel, floated at the foot of the crag.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
12 He swam to the cap, placed it on his head, seized one of the timbers, and struck out so as to cut across the course the vessel was taking.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
13 He soon saw that the vessel, with the wind dead ahead, was tacking between the Chateau d'If and the tower of Planier.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
14 However, the vessel and the swimmer insensibly neared one another, and in one of its tacks the tartan bore down within a quarter of a mile of him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
Context Highlight In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
15 He rose on the waves, making signs of distress; but no one on board saw him, and the vessel stood on another tack.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 This precious vessel was now placed on my knee, and I was invited to eat the circlet of delicate pastry upon it.
2 Space craft is a vessel to travel out air.
3 While the large vessel looked imposing from the outside, the interior was actually cramped.
4 The crew of the Southern Supporter, an Australian customs vessel, has finally arrived here in Cape Town harbor after an epic three-week chase through the treacherous southern ocean, dodging icebergs and high seas to arrest the crew of a ship caught poaching rare Patagonian tooth fish.
5 The sailors decided to scuttle their vessel rather than surrender it to the enemy.
6 A British research vessel that was nearly pounded to smithereens by a massive storm in the North Atlantic in 2000.
7 The condenser is a flat rectangular wooden vessel, which is surrounded with another one containing cold water.
8 Such a presence must take the form of an onshore administrative unit responsible for the management of the fishing vessel concerned.
9 Don't look upon the vessel, but upon that which it contains.
10 The rupture of a blood vessel usually cause the mark of a bruise.
11 Where the water is shallow, no vessel will ride.
12 The vessel reached port the next morning.
13 Australian naval vessel Ocean Shield would be heading to the latest search area once it had investigated a third acoustic detection elsewhere.
14 As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.
15 The blood vessels may leak fluid, which distorts vision.