How to Use bulkhead in a Sentence

bulkhead

noun

• The interior by Nauta Design features lots of windows on the superstructure of the salon, as well as a massive roof window, with lounges set along the bulkheads.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2024
• The men had stripped off their clothing to plug holes in the bulkhead.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
• At the end of the blasted, hard-rock tunnel is a bulkhead.
  — Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 16 May 2017
• Inside, the club has a bar at the center, a day head on the port side, and a lounge near the front bulkhead.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 2 Nov. 2023
• The sidewalk along the new 1,600 feet of bulkhead will wind through a wooded area.
  — Bob Warren, NOLA.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• By resting the boat across a dock and raising the front, the water will drain through the 1-inch hole in the rear bulkhead and the ½-inch hole in the rear block.
  — Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2020
• The port would also re-grade the slop and build a massive bulkhead along the river.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2021
• Want to sit in the bulkhead or exit row, where there’s extra legroom?
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register, 3 Apr. 2017
• Tim Stevens There's a bulkhead between the cargo area and the cabin.
  — Tim Stevens, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• With the seat back slam-up against the rear bulkhead the rake was tolerable for an hour or so.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2017
• New canopies will be added behind the Pier 31 and 33 bulkhead buildings.
  — Trisha Thadani, SFChronicle.com, 3 Aug. 2019
• Just slide the seats, bulkhead, and other parts inside—the floorboards wrap around the whole package to form the shell of the suitcase.
  — Adrienne So, WIRED, 24 June 2019
• So it was put in a framed glass case and placed on a ship's bulkhead, where everyone could see it.
  — Michael E. Ruane Washington Post, Star Tribune, 10 Sep. 2020
• Testers raved about the endless storage: a 78-liter rear hatch, a bulkhead in the bow, and a lunch-securing pod on the deck.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 14 May 2015
• The tail strike accident mangled the bottom half of the bulkhead.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• Two rows of naked corpses, lying side by side, were ranged along the drift behind the second bulkhead.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2022
• The man, who had booked a bulkhead seat on the cross-country flight, proceeded to throw his legs up on the wall in front of him and just chill out.
  — Rachel Jacoby Zoldan, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2017
• Humphreys made the faucet out of copper and nail heads wielded onto bulkhead walls for hooks.
  — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 2 Mar. 2023
• Low walls called bulkheads built along Atlantic City’s shores to block floods have washed away, or were never built in the first place.
  — John Upton, Scientific American, 14 May 2017
• Epifanio Rodriguez, 36, said part of his job was to knock a piece of pipe against a wall or bulkhead, so the asbestos would fly off.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• Lift the engine lid and a 1.1-liter Volkswagen flat-four is tucked behind the rear bulkhead.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2024
• There were glove boxes for food handlers on the bulkhead next to the ice machines that could be used instead.
  — Andrea Vacchiano, Fox News, 16 May 2024
• Torn carpets and wallpaper lines the decks and bulkheads.
  — Washington Post, 23 May 2018
• More than 67 percent of Central Puget Sound has been hardened along the shoreline with rock and sea walls and bulkheads.
  — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, 22 May 2018
• So many people would have perished if those changes weren’t put into place, lifeboats and bulkheads and things like that.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 27 Mar. 2024
• The boats, ideally, come to a stop inches from the bulkhead, then the captains scramble to lasso two lines to the pilings.
  — Jason Nark Kent Nishimura, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• There is a full height, unfinished basement that runs the length of the foundation reachable by bulkhead doors in rear of the home.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• As part of the ground-up restoration, the chassis and bulkhead have been fully reinforced.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 Aug. 2021
• First Boeing studied the structure of the aft pressure bulkhead.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 June 2023
• That said, the fact that bulkhead seats eliminate the risk of a sudden recline might also be a part of their appeal.
  — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024