Hatch

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"Hatch" in a Sentence (31 examples)

The hen sits on her eggs until they hatch.

The crew is now opening the hatch.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

Close the hatch.

Open the hatch.

In a sunny spot stood a pleasant old farm-house close by a deep river, and from the house down to the water side grew great burdock leaves, so high, that under the tallest of them a little child could stand upright. The spot was as wild as the centre of a thick wood. In this snug retreat sat a duck on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch; she was beginning to get tired of her task, for the little ones were a long time coming out of their shells, and she seldom had any visitors.

I tried to open the hatch but it was not to be. The lock was rusty all over, I pulled the handle and it came off.

Tom fell down the hatch.

Down the hatch!

You have to open the hatch to enter the interior of the submarine.

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Moving the wardrobe revealed a previously hidden hatch in the ground.

The cook passed the dishes through the serving hatch.

A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment.

A surprising number of incidents is due to roof hatches being left loose or in the raised position when locomotives return to service after maintenance. On one occasion, a 25kV overhead line was damaged by an open hatch.

The farmers lower down the brook pull up the hatches to let the flood pass.

It consisted of a rude wooden stool , and still ruder hatch or bed-frame

'Twere not amiss to keep our door hatched.

These three chicks hatched yesterday morning.

She was delighted when she heard the crackling sound of the eggs hatching.

I'm hatching this mysterious egg I found in the forest.

World domination was only one of the evil schemes he had hatched over the years.

As for Cersei, pretending to work with her enemies while secretly hatching some grander scheme was pretty much what I expected for the truce going into it.

There's ſomething in his ſoule? / O'er which his Melancholly ſits on brood, / And I do doubt the hatch, and the diſcloſe / Will be ſome danger, which to preuent / I haue in quicke determination

These pullets are from an April hatch.

a. 1947, Edward R. Hewitt, quoted in 1947, Charles K. Fox, Redistribution of the Green Drake, 1997, Norm Shires, Jim Gilford (editors), Limestone Legends, page 104, The Willowemoc above Livington Manor had the largest mayfly hatch I ever knew about fifty years ago.

The major application of the parachute is for mayfly hatches, but it's also useful for midge hatches.

Many years the mayfly hatch begins by the time the lake opens in April. Otherwise, expect strong hatches by mid-May. The hatches continue through midsummer.

hatch, match, and dispatch

Those hatching strokes of the pencil.

Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.

His weapon hatch'd in blood.

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