In a ship's hull ... and where it's at

Usage examples of belowdecks.

Sidling a wild glance at the menacing sea, Miss Daventry clung to the gunwale with the tenacity of a squid, then lunged toward the belowdecks ladderway.

Then he carried her belowdecks, threw open the cabin door and dashed inside.

Earlier, she had been dragged from belowdecks spitting and cursing, still possessed by the wickedness in her skull.

He went down to his cabin to take care of that, making his way with difficulty through the narrow, cramped, and unfamiliar belowdecks spaces, jammed everywhere as they were with materiel and instruments.

Robinson came back onto the bridge from belowdecks with the severed tail held in metal tongs.

Tossed to and fro from prow to stern, I retreated to my small quarters belowdecks, where I became instantly and violently sick.

Other sights were equally impressive, though Gavin made sure they were belowdecks when the Helena passed Gibbet Island, where the dry bones of four convicted pirates rattled in iron cages.

Jase now knows the image they were shown belowdecks was completely, deliberately falsified.

Having Cassius Clay speaking on the riverboat had got the belowdecks folks into a state, and some of them were quite angry at Clay for making white folks feel guilty.

The Corsairs had lit lanterns up and down the length of the galleot shortly before the collision, so that Spaniards running up from belowdecks, rubbing sleep out of their eyes, would be presented with the reassuring sight of oarsmen who were still safely in chains, and free crew members who were unarmed and disorganized.

Shouts and thuds reverberated dimly through the hull-planking as the crew were ordered belowdecks to man the sweeps.

Moseh, Jack, and Dappa belowdecks to the shot-locker, and hacked off a giant padlock, and flung its hatch open.

Jack had never seen van Hoek taken aback until the Dutchman emerged from belowdecks at one point to see one of those waves rolling toward them.

These wretches were so unnerved by the hail that they fled belowdecks and secreted themselves deep in the hold and would not be fetched out for anything.

Teldin stopped at the head of the companionway that would lead him belowdecks and glanced back at Estriss.