Sentence examples for abaft from inspiring English sources

"Hit abaft the second funnel," I shouted down to the control room.

In form, the example is nearly flat-bottomed, round bilged, double-ended, with flaring topsides, and greatest beam abaft midlength.

The felze (wooden winter cabin) and tendalin (canvas summer hood) fell out of use forty or fifty years ago; unless these traditional enclosures are revived, the conventional tender moment on the water will be forever inhibited by the steady oar-plying and tour-guiding going on abaft.

This is understandable; it won't bear comparison with its magnetic neighbours, and moreover, it lies awkwardly abaft the channel, as if the first intention was to be a stopper of it.