How to Use vessel in a Sentence

vessel

noun
  • As the sails drop, the vessel starts to look like a ghost ship.
    Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Abediyan says the name comes from the small vessel the soup is cooked in.
    Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The Coast Guard crew rushed to rescue the three men and their dog from the vessel.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2022
  • The vessel was in transport for 22 years before the night of the wreck.
    Erin Berge, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The figure boards the vessel, which then lifts off and flies away.
    Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • On that trip, though, a crew of eight guided the vessel.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The filmmakers were able to identify the vessel as the Africa due to the size of the ship and the coal found around the wreck.
    Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Sailors sometimes called it the Isle of Lost Ships, for all the vessels wrecked there by storms and rocks.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Each route adds 10 days to three weeks to the trip, depending on how fast the vessel sails.
    Ruth Liao, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Once in place, the new vessel will be able to take on the crude from the Safer, which will then be towed away and sold for scrap.
    Dominic Dudley, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Taking the lid off is the only way to drink from this vessel, and the lip of the mug is just the right size for sipping.
    Tanya Edwards, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Dec. 2022
  • And that's the only thing we were informed about the vessel in that regard.
    Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The minesweepers are made of steel while the Satellite was a wooden hulled vessel.
    Stephen Smith, CBS News, 13 July 2023
  • Half a minute later, the server rushes the vessel to the table and lifts off the dome, swirling the vapors.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • This liquid can be found in the inner chamber of the vessel.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2024
  • When the boats fired on the helicopters, the crew returned fire, sinking three of the four vessels and killing those aboard.
    Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
  • All of those combined to take out lots of historic vessels.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 June 2024
  • All 13 people aboard the vessel were thrown into the water.
    USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Both Navy vessels that are sponsored by the first lady.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The nearest vessel was 60 minutes away, and the men inflated the lifeboat.
    Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
  • Given the powerful 80-mile-an-hour winds, the force of the wind would have overwhelmed their vessel.
    Analisa Novak, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Sediment stuck to the nodules is sucked up along with them to the surface vessel.
    Olive Heffernan, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The Coast Guard moved the vessel further offshore to not endanger the port of Newport.
    Alexa Gagosz, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Coast Guard agents found 142 packages of cocaine in a small vessel.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024
  • The ship traveled in a convoy of about 40-60 other vessels.
    Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2024
  • The 85-foot (26-meter) vessel was dwarfed by the substation, which is almost the size of a football field.
    Will Wade, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Thomas II has become a vessel for this team’s emotions, one of the many roles nobody signed up for.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Cruise ships range in size from yacht-like vessels to mega-ships that are more like floating resorts.
    Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Its 75 crew and passengers were ordered to abandon the vessel on life rafts and were later rescued.
    Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Neither the vessel's name nor hull identification number were visible from the rock wall.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 16 Oct. 2024

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