abaft
Example Sentences
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In Valchem crew's quarters, just five or six feet abaft the deep cut, an oiler awoke into a nightmare.
From Time Magazine Archive
If that�s not high enough, a Eurocopter EC130 4B stands ready on the pad abaft the pilothouse and skylounge.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just abaft the bridge were two large cowled ventilators leading down into the fireroom.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mainsheet is under the deck, with a two-part adjustment just abaft the helm, and all the winch-control buttons are recessed flush with removable chafe pads.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Susan Marie was a thirty-foot stern-picker—a standard, well-tended San Piedro gill-netter—with her cabin just abaft of midship.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
