Sentence examples for off the rearmost from inspiring English sources

By the afternoon the French were observed to be moving to cut off the rearmost ships of the convoy.

Soon the fastest British ship, Stag made use of favourable wind to pull ahead of the others and at 16:15 succeeded in cutting off the rearmost Batavian vessel Alliantie from its companions.

As Minerve turned back towards the British convoy with the intention of cutting off the rearmost ships, Astell passed her more damaged companions to become the first ship in line.

At 09 00, Dance reformed his force into sailing formation to put distance between the two forces and Linois took the opportunity to attack, threatening to cut off the rearmost British ships.

They crouch in the shadow of the rearmost car in the lot.

Many people prefer the option of sticking one passenger in one half of the rearmost seat and folding down the other half to store gear.

If modern reconstructions can be trusted, armies might enter battle in an orderly manner, usually operating in three divisions with the commander in chief in charge of the rearmost one.

The Hofmeister kink, a fixture of fixed-roof BMW automobiles for decades, is a distinctive treatment of the rearmost roof pillar, known in the industry as the C-pillar, where it meets the side window.

I also allowed my rays to reflect internally in a lens element, instead of refract out, and then I would trace them 'backwards' through the lens system, and would only destroy them if they left the back of the rearmost element (ie: they were going back to the film plane).

When the foremost ships were turned to flight, it was then that the most of them were destroyed; for the men of the rearmost ranks, pressing forward in their ships that they too might display their valour to the king, ran foul of their friends' ships that were in flight.

At 17 30, Marengo pulled within range of the rearmost East Indiaman and opened a long-range fire, joined by Belle Poule.