victual
Example Sentences
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Scholars long thought that the capability to construct and victual a watercraft and then navigate it to a distant coast arrived only with advent of agriculture and animal domestication.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2018
Finally the ship had so much victual booty that an extra meal was served: afternoon coffee with bonbons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Preachments against war have come to savor strongly of zwieback, a victual which most people can take or leave at will.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1592, Hideyoshi, founder of the navy, used his ships to land troops in Korea, to victual their beachheads.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same day was the storehouse in Portsmouth burnt, much beer and victual destroyed.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
