Sentence examples for topside and from inspiring English sources

After taking care of that, he retired topside and sat with his arms around a couple of roly-poly, mission-trained natives.

Whitty's mission is to "comprehend and then translate the otherworldly marvels under the surface into the alien world topside," and her subject is exploring the South Pacific's fertile atolls, going on "the underwater equivalent of an African big-game safari".

This time there is a difference though, because since 2001 Nauru has been home to the infamous Topside and Statehouse camps set up under Australia's so-called Pacific solution for processing refugees.

The underground hospitals, barbershops and movie theaters built for a bombarded population were cannibalized so their contents could be used topside, and eventually many of the tunnels were blocked to keep the curious, criminals or perhaps even counterrevolutionaries from moving around beneath the city.

As he passed the back end of the pole topside, and turned his attention to other tasks, he was stunned when the business end of the pole -- equipped with a sharp, plastic hook -- raked him across the top of his scalp.

This is from "Gusev," a story about an ill sailor and one of the first post-Siberia stories: He sleeps for two days, and on the third day two sailors come from topside and carry him out of the sick bay.

In form, the example is nearly flat-bottomed, round bilged, double-ended, with flaring topsides, and greatest beam abaft midlength.

"This latest success enhances BiFab's growing reputation as a major manufacturer of topsides and jackets for the North Sea.

Another decommissioning option is to remove both topsides and jacket to shore.

Therefore, when just considering topsides and jacket of an OOGP in the example, two OOGP decommissioning options with different methods can be obtained.

The findings from a recent Joint Industry Project have revealed that peak overpressures developed from typical hydrocarbon explosions can be much higher than previously used in the design of offshore topsides and thus has necessitated strengthening of many existing installations, including blastwalls.