abaft

Example Sentences

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At the airport the driver fetches a monoplane wing, bolts it into place just abaft the cabin door.

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In his chart room abaft the flag bridge, handsome, white-haired Rear Admiral George R. Henderson, commander of Task Force 77, listened to his pilots' reports on the results of their strike.

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There is a wet bar just abaft the companion seat, with Corian top, trash receptacle and a sink.

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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.

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“And my gog! how could they be otherwise? Look at that one, the aftest abaft the bier-bank: read it!”

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker