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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.
(Four escape hatches in one sentence should be enough!)
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.
[It] served to secure--open as well as closed--a variety of things, parachute packs and hatches among them.”