bulkhead

Example Sentences

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Extent of the flooding if the bulkhead had been watertight.

From Barron's

Despair lapped against her heart like a tide rising against a bulkhead.

From Literature

It also found design standards to be "poor with all the vessels lacking watertight bulkheads, doors and hatches".

From BBC

The city undertook an emergency project to install two new bulkheads to repair washouts from the storm, with construction costs totaling nearly $4.9 million, according to a report from the Los Angeles Bureau of Engineering.

From Los Angeles Times

“That’s solid sheet metal you ’ave there behind the wood on them bulkheads,” came the voice in rather an odd accent.

From Literature