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

“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 Rowlandson, G. D.

In the meantime the afterpart of the brig had gone to pieces, and the foot of the rock was strewn with a vast number of things sent up by the waves.

From The Three Midshipmen by Prout, Victor

The first impulse of everyone was to spring to the afterpart of our craft, as far as possible from its huge fangs.

From The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco by Perat