abaft
Example Sentences
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Down along 650 feet of deck raced 1,300 warrant officers, petty officers, sailors, Royal Marines to jam themselves on the tiny stern deck abaft the anti-aircraft guns.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the airport the driver fetches a monoplane wing, bolts it into place just abaft the cabin door.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even as I looked several long red flashes spurted forward and abaft the funnel, and as I raced back to the cabin the passageway behind me heaved and filled with smoke.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unshakable, unanimous belief of all hands was that a torpedo struck her just abaft amidships on the port side.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a fair wind abaft the beam, the ship could have logged a hundred and fifty miles in a day’s sailing.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
