Example sentences for: rear

How can you use “rear” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I had never noticed it before, but the reason that the old-fashioned bicycle was named the penny-farthing was that the large front wheel bore the same proportion to the tiny one at the rear as a (British) penny bore to a farthing.

  • This animal is remarkable for two features: its short, overlapping snout that resembles the sawed-off trunk of an elephant, and its unique body coloring — black up front, white in the middle and back, black rear legs.

  • Weeping willows hang over the lagoon, around which, in summer, you can take a soporific little tour on a Swan Boat, pedaled by a strapping young man or woman sitting at the rear.

  • Didn't Erik have scabs on his rear and thighs?

  • Cynical and disgusted, Gates gets wind (so to speak) of a wild discovery: a map lodged in the rear end of an Iraqi prisoner that shows what appear to be bunkers holding loot plundered from Kuwait.


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