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

With his large and eccentric ears flapping back in the wind and his afterpart hunched in, he ran round and round the little orchard like a dog gone wild.

From Gentle Julia by Gilbert, C. Allan

The sailboats are generally small square-sterned sloops, open in the afterpart, but with a cuddy forward.

From The Lobster Fishery of Maine Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. 19, Pages 241-265, 1899 by Cobb, John N. (John Nathan)

Yes, my dears, I am glad to say that the afterpart is not to be discontinued.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, December 27, 1890 by Various