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Example sentences for "starn"

Lexicographically close words:
starlight; starlike; starling; starlings; starlit; starost; starosta; starostine; starre; starred
  1. And therfor, quhen Cesar was slayn by the Sanatouris, Octavyan had revengeit his deth, and rang passabilly at the byrth of our salviour, quhen the starn of Bethliam apperit.

  2. Varo sais that Eneas, fra his departing of Troy quhil he coym in the feldis of Lawrentum, all the day saw the starn of Venus; and quhen he was thiddir cummyn he saw it na mair, quharby he ondirstud that was his grund fatayll.

  3. Suddenly the mate gave a howl: "Starn all--starn all!

  4. A bear always goes down a tree starn foremost.

  5. I shall just set two of the fellows to pull gently, and go down starn first, and always sit there ready with the boat-hook to hitch on to a tree if we are going too fast.

  6. Glad you like it, my lad; but I wish Mr Jovanni wouldn't sit on the starn like that.

  7. I don't want to be hanging head and starn in this little bit of a river of your'n.

  8. All right, sir, but 'tween you and me and the starn post your voice would go farther than mine would.

  9. That ould thing begun to drag her anchor, but as soon as ever her ould starn tailed on to that beach her anchor hild, and she lay head on to the sea as comfortable as yaou could want to be.

  10. First they tried Bill's way, and they wropped some sacks raound ould Gladstone's starn quarters to take the chafe.

  11. Heave her starn up, boy; farther up with her starn!

  12. Heave off, put all steam on, and back out, starn fust, and then swing round into the stream.

  13. I'm always afraid of my starn and my rudder when among the field-ice; whereas there is no danger hereabouts that cannot be seen before a vessel is on it.

  14. Now it were a starn chase right up the hill.

  15. He reckons to come up under my starn and rake me fore and aft, while his consort wears ship and pounds me with her broadside.

  16. Roberts, "didn't I tell you that a starn chase was a long one?

  17. Roberts, "didn't I say before, that a starn chase was a long one.

  18. That's our vessel out there, moored fore and aft--that one with her starn so low down, and her nose right up outer the water.

  19. Roberts; "didn't I say before, that a starn chase was a long one.

  20. I was nigh starved on that raft, but was cast on an island where I've bin till a few days ago ever since, when I put to sea on the raft that now lays a-starn there.

  21. It was barely ready when the ship went down starn foremost.

  22. He seated his great carcass in the starn of the boat, while I rowed him over the lake.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "starn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.