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Example sentences for "starboard quarter"

  • Chesapeake hauled up her foresail, and, with three ensigns flying, steered straight for the Shannon's starboard quarter.

  • We were now drawing up on the brig's starboard quarter, and almost within hailing distance.

  • The reefs now lay astern of us, Key Grande bore well upon our starboard quarter, and El Roque was ahead of us, a trifle upon our weather bow.

  • Five miles on the Mosquito's port hand the Gnat was flying steadily at an immense height, the other two aerial craft being a considerable distance on the Mosquito's starboard quarter.

  • Drake through a megaphone, as the Frome slowed down at cable's length on the Independencia's starboard quarter.

  • The Cerberus had lost way, and was lying barely half a mile on the Serena's starboard quarter.

  • The wait was not a very long one, however, and in less than five minutes I found myself abreast the barque's starboard quarter, and within a hundred feet of it.

  • The ship once more came up to the wind, and just clearing the French frigate's starboard quarter, shot up right abreast of her to windward.

  • The lugger was steering for the cutter's starboard quarter.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starboard quarter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    advanced guard; appeared before; became silent; become cold; being possessed; establish itself; exactly know; fair face; far off; faut pas; get you; give herself; higher kind; little away; other good; parallel motion; past life; prose fiction; starboard quarter; surface water; while the; will submit