afterpart
Example Sentences
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Its afterpart stands clear and showing its skin, like a dissected whale, but its forward part is enclosed in a big tank of water.
From Time Magazine Archive
The entire afterpart of the ship was on fire, and sailors were launching the lifeboat that was on our deck.
From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor
Bates conducted another down below in the afterpart of the ship.
From Roger Willoughby A Story of the Times of Benbow by Archibald Webb
“Hallo, sailor boy!” said Tom Long, superciliously; and then they stood looking at each other, quite unconsciously like a couple of Malay game cocks in bamboo cages, on the afterpart of the sampan.
From Middy and Ensign by G. D. Rowlandson
We will see, however, what is to be found in the afterpart of the ship.”
From The Three Admirals by J.R. Wells
