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main body
noun
- the hull, as distinguished from the rest of a ship.
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Showers and perhaps some downpours may move through during the main body of the day.
To survive in deep space, Lucy will carry two round solar arrays flanking the spacecraft’s main body.
Despite the abundance of spacious pockets on the main body of the pack, those on the hip belt were far too small to stash my phone.
The only downside—the electrical cord cannot disconnect from the main body, which means hand washing only.
The goal is to crash into the asteroid’s secondary body, a “moonlet” called Dimorphos that’s as wide as one and a half football fields, and change the speed of its orbit around the main body.
Having finally re-joined the main body of the Ukrainian forces, the beleaguered defenders of Sector D were evacuated.
A large portion of these migrated to America to be with the main body of the Church in Utah.
By nightfall nearly all their ammunition had gone and the main body of the battalion was 400 yards behind them.
No, but Porter evidently divided his forces here, and we were discussing which road the main body took.
At last, with but fifteen hundred men left, he regained the main body near Orcha.
His main body set about preparing food, and disposed themselves at ease, while parties went out to forage.
A few continuing to fire after the main body had surrendered, an indiscriminate slaughter ensued.
The main body of the party struggled forward to the Border, but many of them—Barbour says three-fourths—were slain or captured.
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