astern
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The Ferraris staged a frantic scrap over the first five laps in which they seemed to spend almost as much time side by side as in line astern.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2024
Observing the usual ceremony, the cars were rolled to the grid in line astern by white-overalled mechanics.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 29, 2020
Halfway between New Zealand and Cape Horn, he was on the deck when a huge wave came from astern and broke over the boat.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 19, 2019
We would visit it again on the way south, but in between, once the archipelago had slipped over the horizon astern of us, we would see no land.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2018
She gave me stores, victuals and wine, a cloak divinely woven, and made a warm land breeze come up astern.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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