abaft

Example Sentences

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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