abaft
Example Sentences
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Even as I looked several long red flashes spurted forward and abaft the funnel, and as I raced back to the cabin the passageway behind me heaved and filled with smoke.
From Time Magazine Archive
A cedar-lined hanging locker for your Dude Duds and gold Fountain bling is to starboard, just abaft this area.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the airport the driver fetches a monoplane wing, bolts it into place just abaft the cabin door.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just abaft the bridge were two large cowled ventilators leading down into the fireroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
He made his way just abaft of the cabin, then stood squinting up at the Susan Marie’s guys and stays and at the peaks of her stabilizer bars.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
