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

Whether a sufficient number of tension wires remained to adequately support the afterpart of the nacelle remained a matter of doubt.

From The Airship "Golden Hind" by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

“A man overboard!” exclaimed some one from the afterpart of the deck.

From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor

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