afterpart

Example Sentences

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Its afterpart stands clear and showing its skin, like a dissected whale, but its forward part is enclosed in a big tank of water.

From Time Magazine Archive

The entire afterpart of the ship was on fire, and sailors were launching the lifeboat that was on our deck.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor

Meantime the sea had made a breach over the afterpart of the ship, carrying away portions of the bulwarks.

From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor

No distinction of rank was made by the jailors on the Jersey, but the prisoners themselves agreed to allow the officers to occupy the extreme afterpart of the ship, between decks, called the gun-room.

From American Prisoners of the Revolution by Dandridge, Danske

With his large and eccentric ears flapping back in the wind and his afterpart hunched in, he ran round and round the little orchard like a dog gone wild.

From Gentle Julia by Gilbert, C. Allan