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Examples of hull in a Sentence
Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2024
Boats sit dry and askew on their hulls in driveways.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
The hull damage, pollution and cargo losses were insured separately in the market as property coverage.
—Federica Cocco, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
Outside and below the house, a barbecue area has an an electric grill, bathroom, and covered patio with a wood-look-alike ceiling made from rice hulls.
—Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
Options such as a pillow with buckwheat hulls can significantly improve your comfort levels.
—Hilary Tetenbaum, Detroit Free Press, 8 Apr. 2024
Parts of a bridge cutting through the hull of a massive ship in Argentina.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 27 Mar. 2024
Hazmat inspectors have found no evidence the Dali's hull is leaking any fluids into the river, U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Peter Gautier said.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
Usually the essayist commissioned to take to the sea is in their first or second flush of youth and is ready to sharpen their wit against the hull of the offending vessel.
—Gary Shteyngart, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2024
Karen Schroeder-Rankin, Southern Living, 30 July 2023
In our final test, the paring knife was up to par for hulling strawberries, producing a smooth cut with no resistance.
—Cai Cramer, Peoplemag, 20 Apr. 2023
It’s traditionally made by simmering pork with chiles and hominy (hulled corn kernels), but adding venison to the pot lends the stew a richer and more vibrant character.
—Jonathan Miles, Field & Stream, 15 Nov. 2023
Sterile seeds, or seeds that are just hull with no edible part inside, will look thin and papery.
—Becky Krystal, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
Place the washed and hulled strawberries in a blender.
—Carolyn Hagler, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
For a similar effect, hull fresh strawberries and freeze overnight before using.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 31 July 2023
The small blade gives you more control for jobs like hulling and halving strawberries.
—Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 13 July 2023
Next, hull the berries by using a paring knife to remove the green stems.
—Pam Lolley, Southern Living, 12 July 2023
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Word History
Noun
Middle English holle, hulle, going back to Old English hulu, apparently going back to a by-form (without umlaut) of Germanic *huljō (whence Old High German hulla "outer garment," Middle High German hülle), nominal derivative from *hulj-a- "to cover" (whence Old Saxon bihullean "to veil, conceal," Old High German hullan "to cover," Old Norse hylja "to hide, cover," Gothic huljan "to cover, veil"), going back to Indo-European *ḱl̥-i̯e-, present stem formed from the verbal base *ḱel- "cover, conceal" — more at conceal
Note: The sense "frame or body of a ship," first attested with certainty ca. 1424-25 in a Latin document, is apparently a figurative use of the sense "husk, pod"; cf. Bertil Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms I. The Ship's Hull (Uppsala, 1951), pp. 194-95.
Noun
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Verb
14th century, in the meaning defined above
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“Hull.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hull. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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