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watertight
1. It was actually a mug-shaped, plastic container with three valves built into the watertight lid
2. “Yes, yes we are, but I believe this car is watertight?”
3. It frequently happened that we attended crime scenes where a lot of blood had been spilled, and I found out that the canvas boots were not really watertight, or in this case blood proof
4. The cargo hold consisted of twelve watertight compartments, so that most of the cargo could be saved in the event of a breech in the hull
5. The lower one was for ballast; the second had watertight compartments for cargo and storage; the third had the crew quarters, kitchen and eating area; the fourth held the cannon
6. “Don’t you see it John? The case is watertight against me, I can’t let my family and friends go through with such a protracted case as this, the bank will suffer from the bad publicity too
7. watertight system of thinking, or a way of apprehending reality
8. He knew the contract was watertight
9. They all provided watertight alibis for each other and the Director of Public Prosecutions was reluctant to bring anybody to court with a case he believed was unlikely to succeed
10. Always have a watertight written contract with the client that covers you well in all
11. He entered a code on the wall to the left of the door, 7721, and the watertight door hissed from the pressure release and opened inward on two large hinges
12. Garth walked me back to the watertight door at 7:15 and I watched him enter the same code Mack had entered
13. At that moment, the pirate leader seemed to give up on his attempts at calling his men and went to an intercom telephone housed in a watertight casing bolted to a steel wall
14. He then took out of the rear emergency compartment of the rowboat a watertight bag and opened it, revealing a small emergency radio transceiver
15. Going in the constricted space between the foot of the ladder and the watertight bulkhead behind it, he fixed the camera dome in an upper corner that was in a zone of shadow
16. She wore a diver’s wet suit, with a mask, tuba and a pair of fins hooked to her belt and with a watertight small pack now at her feet, while she held a compact, silencer-equipped pistol in her right hand
17. With the watertight and anti-flash doors of the battleship still not closed and secured, huge searing sheets of flames blew out of the forward upper powder magazine, igniting as well the cordite charges stored in the lower powder room
18. With the watertight doors of four of the surviving main compartments blown open by the explosions, both parts started sinking fast at the vertical amidst a huge cloud of smoke and steam, with the tip of the stern disappearing last from sight after a mere twenty seconds, its propellers still spinning
19. All watertight compartments have disappeared
20. The legal feedback was that the lease was watertight and that the chances of
21. In many cases, this person is introduced rather shamefacedly by the regular negotiator; the excuse is given that they are just there to cast a paternal eye over proceedings and check that the deal is watertight
22. In a watertight bag
23. He remained at the barn that night and periodically checked the rain barrel to assure that the ice was refreezing around the pipe resulting in a watertight seal
24. The Vesta had been constructed with three watertight bulkheads and remained with two intact compartments
25. a watertight plastic bag, handing them over
26. “I’m afraid this is a dead end,” Chalmers said in the corridor, “this guy has a watertight alibi and does he strike you as a brutal murderer?”
27. Going to her pants that John had hung up to dry before he had disappeared she found her drives in their watertight container
28. ship, could be made practically indestructible by means of watertight bulkheads?
29. But, at any rate, our Board of Trade Inquiry, conducted by an experienced President, discovered a very interesting fact on the very second day of its sitting: the fact that the watertight doors in the bulkheads of that wonder of naval architecture could be opened down below by any irresponsible person
30. And the objection of the expert was: that because of this obstruction it would be impossible to close the watertight door, and therefore that the thing could not be done
31. from the library by a watertight bulkhead, in other words, it couldn't be penetrated by the sea; the library, 5 meters long; the main lounge, 10 meters long, separated from the captain's stateroom by a second watertight bulkhead; the aforesaid stateroom, 5 meters long; mine, 2
32. Doors were cut into the watertight bulkheads and were shut hermetically by means of india–rubber seals, which insured complete safety aboard
33. At the far end stood a fourth watertight bulkhead, separating the crew's quarters from the engine room
34. I heard a door with watertight seals close after us, and we were surrounded by profound darkness
35. And all came with nimbi and aureoles and gloriae, bearing palms and harps and swords and olive crowns, in robes whereon were woven the blessed symbols of their efficacies, inkhorns, arrows, loaves, cruses, fetters, axes, trees, bridges, babes in a bathtub, shells, wallets, shears, keys, dragons, lilies, buckshot, beards, hogs, lamps, bellows, beehives, soupladles, stars, snakes, anvils, boxes of vaseline, bells, crutches, forceps, stags' horns, watertight boots, hawks, millstones, eyes on a dish, wax candles, aspergills, unicorns
36. But she also knew that not even Tor was watertight – the N
37. Conceptually, it was simple: put two hundred pounds of gunpowder into a watertight copper container; mount the container on the end of a spar; rig a detonator using the percussion caps now available to the defenders of Mother Church; and then put the entire contraption into a small, fast boat
38. Of the modern means of forming such compartments, and of the complete and automatic devices for operating the watertight doors which connect them, a full explanation has already been given in the description of the Titanic's physical features, to which the reader is referred