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Example sentences for: hatches

How can you use “hatches” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The hatches were inadvertently left open till November, when rainwater topped the pontoons and scuttled the whole show.
During a summer spruce-up, its pontoon hatches were opened to catch the dirty runoff from hydraulic hoses that were being used to clean it.
[It] served to secure--open as well as closed--a variety of things, parachute packs and hatches among them.”
Reviewers are divided over whether this unusually dark horror film--starring Mira Sorvino as a scientist who hatches killer cockroaches--represents B-movie brilliance or garden-variety trash.
(Four escape hatches in one sentence should be enough!)