Sentence Examples

1. We reefed the foresail and set him, and hauled aft the foresheet the helm was hard a-weather.
2. Watters ran aft, hoping for a miracle that he knew would not transpire.
3. Oh well, the best-laid plans of mice and men aft gang agley.
4. The young woman, who was seated aft, was profoundly affected as she looked out upon the ocean, darkening now with the twilight, on which she had ventured in so frail a vessel.
5. In the next instant, a wilderness of foam hurled us upon our beam-ends, and, rushing over us fore and aft, swept the entire decks from stem to stern.
6. The coastguard ran aft, and when he came beside the wheel, bent over to examine it, and recoiled at once as though under some sudden emotion.
7. I hallooed to him with all my strength, and presently he came reeling aft.
8. Watters slipped free, paused for a second, and hurried aft.
9. Staggering as far aft as I could, I awaited fearlessly the ruin that was to overwhelm.
10. He grabbed the starboard rail and removed the aft winch cable.