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

It seemed to embrace the whole afterpart of the ship, and everything one of the forked tongues of fire was projected against burst into flame itself.

From Sea-Hounds by Freeman, Lewis R.

At the extreme afterpart of the vessel he paused before a door on the port side.

From The Boy Allies Under the Sea by Hayes, Clair W. (Clair Wallace)

He advanced cautiously, showing his whole vast proportions, his huge shaggy mane, and the afterpart of his body looking thin and small, but even that was of the size of a full-grown donkey.

From Adventures in Africa By an African Trader by Kingston, William Henry Giles