rear
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, retirement is relegated to the rear view and a rematch Sept. 19 at the Las Vegas Sphere will be streamed live on Netflix.
From Los Angeles Times
At the bottom, there was a ladder propped against the rear wall.
From BBC
To let Rowdy know that I was coming, I reared back and whooped as loud as I could, “Who-o-e-e, tell it to him, boy. Sing him a hound-dog song.”
From Literature
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My mother named me after a cow’s rear end.
From Literature
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He laments that most dogs are “stupidly loved, stupidly hated, acquired without thought, reared and ruled without understanding.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.