abaft

Example Sentences

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The galley abaft the owner�s suite includes private crew stairs to their cabin and mess area forward as well as to the raised pilothouse.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tail unit had been severed just abaft the toilet and was found practically intact about a mile from the wreck.

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At the airport the driver fetches a monoplane wing, bolts it into place just abaft the cabin door.

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If that�s not high enough, a Eurocopter EC130 4B stands ready on the pad abaft the pilothouse and skylounge.

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There was not a sail on the horizon, or a storm cloud in the sky; just a fair wind abaft the beam and the Astrea reaching for the Cape.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham