Fukui

[ foo-koo-ee, foo-koo-ee ]

noun

1. Ke·ni·chi [ke-, nee, -chee], 1918–98, Japanese chemist: Nobel Prize 1981.
2. a city in central Honshu, Japan.

Example Sentences

Accordingly, we in the Chiyo went ahead, the Fukui falling in next astern, and the other two retaining their original positions.

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Wondering whether Arima also had noticed this, I rang our engines ahead for a revolution or two, and hailed the Fukui to inquire.

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What means had we to take soundings, or to measure the gap between the sunken Fukui and the Yoneyama?

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