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

He advanced cautiously, showing his whole vast proportions, his huge shaggy mane, and the afterpart of his body looking thin and small, but even that was of the size of a full-grown donkey.

From Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by Kingston, William Henry Giles

The head was attached to the afterpart of the maintop.

From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble)

Without saying more he turned away, not going below at once, but standing on the main deck near the office in the afterpart.

From Laid up in Lavender by Weyman, Stanley J.