Strong iron stanchions in a square-sterned vessel, connecting the main-rail with the taffrail; used for ridge-ropes to extend the awnings.
In the western basin the majority of the smaller vessels are of the sharp-sterned build.
In the eastern basin the long-bowed wide-sterned caique of the Bosporus is perhaps the type of boat best known, but both Greek and Italian waters abound with an unnumbered variety of boats of "beautiful lines and great carrying power.
The heavy sterned ones sitting on the lid prevented the opening of the Pandora box with its promises of affliction for the human race in the shape of legal reform.
The more energetic of us may take our pleasure in giving friendly shoves to these heavy sterned Christians, but their inert services to the community are not to be undervalued.
Dickens had the same impatience of the heavy sterned brigade and invented his immortal Circumlocution Office, and doubtless genius is entitled to deride these substantial State institutions.
We sternedoff out of the slick where the whale had gone down, and lay just at the outer rim of the bloody water.
At the landing place at Portland Point, one or two fishing boats are lying on the beach, and out a little from the shore a small square sterned schooner lies at her anchor.
They are not like heavy-sterned Dutchmen or Russians; these Frenchmen always sleep with one eye open.
The mate was disappointed, for they were short-handed, and he fancied Bruin would prove a fine heavy-sterned fellow for pulling and hauling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sterned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
