How to Use vessel in a Sentence
vessel
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As the sails drop, the vessel starts to look like a ghost ship.
—Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Sep. 2024
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Abediyan says the name comes from the small vessel the soup is cooked in.
—Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
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The Coast Guard crew rushed to rescue the three men and their dog from the vessel.
—Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Dec. 2022
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The vessel was in transport for 22 years before the night of the wreck.
—Erin Berge, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
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The figure boards the vessel, which then lifts off and flies away.
—Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
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On that trip, though, a crew of eight guided the vessel.
—Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 18 Aug. 2023
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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
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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
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The ship was part of a fleet of vessels sailing from Cuba to Spain in 1715.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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Each route adds 10 days to three weeks to the trip, depending on how fast the vessel sails.
—Ruth Liao, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
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The particles will start to move freely through the whole volume of the vessel.
—Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Experts believe the vessel broke in two at a depth of about 600 feet.
—Latoya Gayle, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
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The minesweepers are made of steel while the Satellite was a wooden hulled vessel.
—Stephen Smith, CBS News, 13 July 2023
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McGimsey said that tiny parts of the vessel were exposed in 1990s.
—From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2022
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The cranes holding the lifeboat would not release, but as the ship rolled, the smaller vessel touched the water.
—Joel Sams, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Jan. 2025
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Others swam to the 106-foot-long research vessel and were pulled aboard.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 May 2022
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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
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This liquid can be found in the inner chamber of the vessel.
—Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 3 Sep. 2024
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The vessel’s next cruise, which was set to start on Thursday, was canceled.
—Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
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Trees break up the steps of pulling the water from vessel to vessel so each step is smaller than the whole.
—Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
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The storm caused the boat’s anchor to drag and the vessel began taking on water.
—Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2022
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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
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For now, the 104-foot vessel remains under a white tarp.
—BostonGlobe.com, 12 Aug. 2022
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The Navy estimates about 300 sailors were trapped inside and went down with the vessel.
—CBS News, 27 May 2022
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All of those combined to take out lots of historic vessels.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 June 2024
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When this happens, the eye tries to grow new blood vessels that are prone to leaking or bleeding into the macula.
—Lindsay Curtis, Health, 28 Mar. 2025
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The latest military action came after nearly a year and a half of attacks from Houthis, both on commercial merchant vessels and U.S. military ships.
—Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
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