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
Our craft was completely decked over, and a cabin raised in the afterpart for Marian and my father.
From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat
Meantime the sea had made a breach over the afterpart of the ship, carrying away portions of the bulwarks.
From The Three Midshipmen by Victor Prout
