How to Use keel in a Sentence

keel

noun

• The ship was split down the keel and the hull submerged in the sand.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 June 2022
• This dense mass, called a spar platform, works like the keel of a boat.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
• From there, split the bird in two up the back and along the keel, grill it or broil it briefly, and enjoy.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
• McNeill was the one keeping an even keel in those days.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023
• The wound had remnants of red paint, which is usually used on the keel of boats.
  — Glenn Garner, Peoplemag, 21 Oct. 2022
• Construction of the hull started with fore and aft stems fastened to the keel.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• These days, Biles has a thorough self-care practice to stay on an even keel.
  — Megan Johnson, PEOPLE.com, 14 Apr. 2022
• Some 40 percent of the vessel’s total weight is placed in the keel to better balance the boat.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2023
• Despite all the stakes, Wommack is trying to keep his team on an even keel.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 27 Sep. 2021
• To keep an even keel, make a little space between you and others for now.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 24 Sep. 2021
• Its keel floated only a few yards from the canal’s bottom.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 July 2021
• The company said that any damage to the ship was believed to be mostly on its keel.
  — Fox News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Wonder of the Seas had its first steel cut in April 2019 with its keel-laying in October of that year.
  — Richard Tribou, orlandosentinel.com, 21 Jan. 2022
• Then the shape becomes clearer: the curve of the oak ribs and planks of a ship’s side, iron bolts, the keel and what must have been the stern, the broken rudder, sheathed in copper.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2023
• The decoys are built around a metal keel, which is held in place by a magnet during the molding process.
  — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 21 Aug. 2020
• Getting the skin back on an even keel calls for a calm but considered approach.
  — Georgia Day, Vogue, 6 Dec. 2023
• It, too, was scrapped, and its keel, for a time, could be seen peeking out from the muck of Staten Island’s boat graveyard.
  — Curbed, 21 Jan. 2022
• In a similar vein, new AI laws are being explored to try and keep AI on an even keel.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Bird sternums have a projection from the middle called the keel, and this is where the flight muscles are attached.
  — Emily Schwing, Scientific American, 11 Feb. 2022
• But Croft was pleased with how the techniques kept that conversation on an even keel.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 19 Feb. 2021
• The restoration work was carried out from the keel up at the request of owners Ahmet and Cigdem Ongun.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 Mar. 2023
• Martin is perhaps the most incisive of the three, and Wishaw plays him with a disturbingly-even keel.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 27 Jan. 2023
• My father has been a big influence on me and serves as a keel in my career journey.
  — Gary Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2021
• Ships are slashed and burned as workers cut out metal to be resold as scrap; eventually, they are hacked down to the keel.
  — Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 9 Aug. 2021
• The Dutch yard just laid the keel of a custom 187-footer with a layout unlike any other fleet member.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
• The keel laying of Setteesettanta took place at the Heesen yard in Oss on December 14.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 Dec. 2023
• The question is whether a new playbook and a new culture will keep Signet on an even keel in choppier waters.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2022
• While the Wager was navigating this traffic, her keel ran aground on a shoal.
  — David Grann, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2023
• Regardless of what happens, Granlund is keeping an even keel.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2024
• Jones and a team of six would then spend three years reassembling the ship in situ, by fastening the timbers onto the cradle, probably in the same order as the original builders, starting with the keel, adding the planking and then the frames.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 11 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024