How to Use bulkhead in a Sentence
bulkhead
noun-
The Air France bulkhead, however, is the pinnacle of business-class luxury.
— Chris Dong, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 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 -
With an innovative carbon-fiber arch supporting the mast, the vessel is free of posts and bulkheads that might otherwise interrupt flow.
— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 June 2024
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