sternward

How to use sternward in a sentence

• Half of the vessel sternward was devoid of air, but here in the bow we could last a little longer.

  Wandl the Invader | Raymond King Cummings

• In the end, when the afternoon was waxing late, the sternward vessel stood up so that every detail of her loomed plain.

  Poor Man's Rock | Bertrand W. Sinclair

• She was about four thousand tons, and her engines were sternward and not amidship.

  The Million Dollar Mystery | Harold MacGrath

• Gregory turned about to see the black waters to the sternward were rippled with sparkling threads of silver-white.

  El Diablo | Brayton Norton

• His eye was at once turned towards the water; and, like all men accustomed to the sea, was intuitively directed sternward.

  The Ocean Waifs | Mayne Reid