aft

Example Sentences

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Two tunnels ran from fore to aft, right beneath the deck.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

“Let’s get everyone off the ship and onto the dock,” Willcox said, and padded aft in his bare feet.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

In September, after misdrilled holes were discovered in the aft pressure bulkhead installed at Spirit, the CEO told Wall Street analysts quality checks had been stepped up.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 14, 2024

Standing on the aft deck of a modified 13-meter fishing boat in Halifax Harbour, Dariia Atamanchuk gazes at both a cause of the climate crisis and, she hopes, part of the solution.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 30, 2023

For starboard aft, it would be marked thus—“S. A.”

From "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass