abaft

Example Sentences

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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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Unshakable, unanimous belief of all hands was that a torpedo struck her just abaft amidships on the port side.

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Tenders are carried in side garages on the upper deck abaft the pilothouse, and the top deck includes a glass-enclosed sky gym.

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If that�s not high enough, a Eurocopter EC130 4B stands ready on the pad abaft the pilothouse and skylounge.

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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