Synonyms

1. bow
2. fore
3. prow

Sentence Examples

1. 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.
2. Bouquets of oblong blossoms, vibrant pink, protruded on a single stem.
3. Brooke went to Jed who was trying to stem the blood gushing from his nose.
4. The end of the Vietnam War and civil rights legislation did nothing to stem the tide.
5. A packet of personality secreted away underneath the uncompromising rage of the outer entity that twisted around his brain stem, squeezing it into a tiny space still afforded to the man in his own mind.
6. Beneath his hands, he could feel the sap swell and small leaves twisting up out of the stem and opening up.
7. In youth, the tulip-tree, or Liriodendron Tulipferum, the most magnificent of American foresters, has a trunk peculiarly smooth, and often rises to a great height without lateral branches but, in its riper age, the bark becomes gnarled and uneven, while many short limbs make their appearance on the stem.
8. Small fingers pushed a stem of straw into the wood of the door she would know now if the planking had been removed.
9. Its tiny stem had swollen and broken free from its prison shell.
10. A small knob connected to the long stem, near the bottom.