Sentence examples for draught to from inspiring English sources

C. J. Morse: One strong draught to make you snuffle: another to pep you up (3 meanings).

This 805-kilometre stretch is a shipping lane of equal importance to the Panama and Suez canals, but it has a shallow point only 25 metres deep, limiting passing ships' draught to 20 metres.The sheer bulk of the latest ships is also concentrating traffic in big hub ports.

First, an additional term due to the finite draught of ships is derived by subtracting the integration of velocity square terms along the vertical control surface from the ships draught to the negative infinite.

This also reduced the draught to 9.03 m.

His men laughing and resting against the rounded planks of the bow, Simon crawled over the draught to Jesus.

She had to be lightened to raise her draught to get over the sand banks in the estuary.

No draughts to give you a chill.

Herodotus tells us that Lydians invented board games (but not draughts) to keep their minds off hunger during a famine.

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The district is prone to periodic draught leading to food shortage, but the severe malnutrition observed in the patient groups is more than what one would see in the general adult population suggesting possible neglect (or preferential treatment of healthy groups of the family in times of shortage).

The thickness of the main belt was reduced by 1 inch to save weight, but the primary method chosen to reduce the draught was to increase the beam by 2.5 feet.