They were built as sturdy vessels suitable for making long offshore and ocean passages needing only a couple of people to crew the boat.

Ms. Torrey said a suitable vessel would be bought "in a matter of weeks."

By the time a suitable deep-space vessel could be constructed on this world, any traces would have dissipated.

Soon he would be established as the only vessel suitable to bear the Horned Rat's word.

One week I was forced to wait for a suitable vessel.

The watches under test shall be immersed in water contained in a suitable vessel.

The government was compelled, therefore, to use smaller and less suitable vessels for sending out their prisoners.

That left someone new-a stranger who had picked her off the street as a suitable vessel for trying out a new piece of magic.

In 2001, Congress appropriated $1 million for a design study of a suitable vessel.

Give them the tools to build their own boats, suitable vessels.