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
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 C. Allan Gilbert
Nights and mornings are now very cold, but the sun is very hot during the middle and afterpart of the day.
From Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart by John McDouall Stuart
The cabin was nothing more than a “toldo”—an arched roof, thatched with leaves of the bossu palm, and covering all the afterpart of the vessel, except a small space for the steersman.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
