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noun

ˈhəl

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as in sheath

something that encloses another thing especially to protect it the coffin was placed in a cement hull

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verb

as in to peel

to remove the natural covering of hull the pinto beans before adding them

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Sailboats are notoriously quiet and their hulls are often acoustically transparent. —

David Szondy april 20, New Atlas, 20 Apr. 2026 The iron-hull ship is well-preserved and divers only have to go 22 feet deep to observe it. —

Lauren David, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2026

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To make strawberry ice cream, add 1 pint of strawberries, hulled and sliced. To make cookies and cream ice cream, add 1 cup of crushed Oreos. —

Maryal Miller Carter, USA Today, 6 June 2025 Everything from lifeboat drills to hull design can trace its roots back to the hard lessons learned from Titanic’s fate. —

David Nikel, Forbes.com, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for hull

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It was subsequently named as myelin basic protein The discovery of this protein revealed something groundbreaking––the demyelination, or breakdown, of that protective sheath is behind multiple sclerosis.

— Marcy Thompson, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2026
Temperatures outside the capsule built up to some 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit as a sheath of plasma enveloped the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, and its four long-distance travelers, temporarily blocking radio signals the Moon ship and Mission Control in Houston.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Apr. 2026