hulks in English
noun
1
an old ship stripped of fittings and permanently moored, especially for use as storage or (formerly) as a prison.
Some ships were dismasted and used as prison or storage hulks .
2
a large or unwieldy boat or other object.
The path wound its way through the mountains haphazardly, towering hulks of stone suspended high above them.
Use "hulks" in a sentence
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1. Loyal subjects of the Imperium always feared hulks.
2. Chahine Yavroyan's sound-design is a mosaic of distant gunfire, creaking hulks and elegiac music.
3. She gazed down at the London horizon, its tranquillity pierced by hulks of office buildings.
4. On the shore children still play, and fishermen drop anchor nearby, but the hulks of derelict hotels stand vacant.