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How to use vessel in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Vessel means any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine. Example: “A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.”

Examples of vessel by meaning

nounAny craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.

  • Conditions were horrendous aboard most British naval vessels at the time.2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2...

nounA craft designed for transportation through air or space.

  • Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from passenger shuttles to mobile space stations.2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Quarians Codex entry

nounA person as a container of qualities or feelings.

  • A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.

nounA tube or canal that carries fluid in an animal or plant.

  • Blood and lymph vessels are found in humans; xylem and phloem vessels are found in plants.

More sentences with vessel

  • Vessels are often built by one firm and engined by another.From the entry engine
  • The radioactivity was released when they blew off steam from the containment vessel.From the entry blow off
  • A channel was dredged to allow ocean-going vessels to reach the city.From the entry channel
  • Toshing, a cant word for stealing copper sheathing from vessels' bottoms, or from dock-yard stores.From the entry tosh
  • The steel hulls of ice-breakers are much thicker than those of standard vessels.From the entry icebreaker
  • We were ready to embark upon our journey now the vessel was rigged.From the entry rigged
  • The officer of the deck has the conde of the vessel.From the entry conde
  • Reattaching his severed finger required microsurgery to suture together the tiny blood vessels.From the entry microsurgery
  • Most of the provenanced pottery vessels were found in San Diego county middens.From the entry provenanced
  • The crewing of the vessel before the crash was deficient.From the entry crew
  • I see another vessel off the starboard side.From the entry starboard
  • Containers will be rolled to another mother vessel.From the entry roll
  • The officer of the deck has the conn of the vessel; the captain took the conn when he reached the bridge.From the entry conn
  • Campers prefer stout vessels, sticks and cloth.From the entry stout
  • A Mayday call was transmitted by the stricken vessel.From the entry transmit
  • The rag bagger offloaded his vessel in the rain.From the entry rag bagger
  • Sani Araby said the vessels participating in the GSF 2.0 mission began being intercepted at 3 pm Malaysian time.From the entry GSF
  • The vessel was filled with a thick, molasseslike fluid.From the entry molasseslike
  • Having spotted an unknown contact on radar, the navigation officer attempted to identify the vessel using the ship's AIS.From the entry ais
  • The compound rendered the surface of the vessel unimpregnable.From the entry unimpregnable
  • The vessel moored in the stream.From the entry moor
  • A clear breach is when the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. A clean breach is when everything on deck is swept away.From the entry breach
  • The vessel is taking on bunkers.From the entry bunker
  • A vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side of it, and the lee gauge when on the lee side of it.From the entry gauge
  • As the vessel passes a landmark, the landmark is said to be abeam. Once the vessel has passed the landmark, it falls abaft the beam, then it gradually falls astern.From the entry beam
  • To create a biological machine, EBICS teams will work with many kinds of cells, but primarily those of three types: neurons, muscle cells and endothelial cells, which make blood vessels.From the entry EBICS
  • Above 32 degrees latitude in the Atlantic Ocean, commercial fishing vessels must carry immersion suits.2025 October 21, Rose George, “‘I knew in my head we were dying’: the last voyage of the Scandies Rose”, in The Guardian. From the entry PFD
  • Traditional BBLs are risky because of the dangers should injected fat end up in blood vessels.2024 September 30, Nicola Davis, “What are Brazilian butt lifts, and should they be banned?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original…. From the entry bbl
  • Yakgwa (“yak” means medicine and “gwa” means confection) is more than a vessel for coveted sweetness.2023 September 18, Eric Kim, “The Amber Gleam of Yakgwa, South Korea’s ‘It’ Cookie”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry yakgwa
  • SS Mont Blanc, a French vessel loaded with 2.9 kilotons of explosives, collided with the Imo.2022 August 24, Bruce Healey, “Wartime tunnel crash: a miraculous escape”, in RAIL, number 964, page 53. From the entry devastate
  • The vessel for this alcohol enema can be a funnel or soaked tampon.2021 September 27, Jessica Testa, “Everything You Need To Know About Butt-Chugging”, in BuzzFeed. From the entry butt chugger
  • A baghla was among the largest Arab ocean-going vessels and displayed some traces of European design.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 124. From the entry baggala
  • Malay ‘prahu’ or proa were said to be more than a match for British vessels.2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 231. From the entry proa
  • Instead, the university is a husk, an empty vessel, a zombie organization.2020, Tara Brabazon, Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, Natalie Hills, The Creative PhD: Challenges, Opportunities, Reflection. From the entry zombie organization
  • Shells have sheared off several main guns and virtually disarmed the vessel.2019 September 18, Drachinifel, 26:33 from the start, in Battle of Tsushima - When the 2nd Pacific Squadron thought it couldn't get any…. From the entry disarm
  • One of the most common sea vessels in medieval Europe was the “round ship”.2018, Inventions: A Children's Encyclopedia, page 19. From the entry round ship

Meaning of vessel

  1. noun Any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.
  2. noun A craft designed for transportation through air or space.
  3. noun Dishes and cutlery collectively, especially if made of precious metals.

Full definition of vessel

Questions about vessel in a sentence

How do you use vessel in a sentence?
Vessel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “A teacher should be a vessel of knowledge.”
What is a short sentence with vessel?
“The vessel is taking on bunkers.”
What does vessel mean?
Vessel means any craft designed for transportation on or in water, such as a ship, boat, or submarine.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vessel (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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