Example sentences for: rear

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

  • She said her flight was being hijacked by six individuals who had moved them to the rear of the plane.

  • For example, delivery of the aft fuselage-the rear aircraft body section-was late for several of the test aircraft and two ground test articles because of late parts and difficulties with the welding process.

  • For instance, adrenalin is also the common term in AE (not epinephrine ), though the latter is known; BE bath can be tub in AE but is usually bathtub ; an AE cookie is a BE sweet biscuit , but biscuit is a common alternative term in AE for a dry cracker (Remember Uneeda Biscuits ? They are crackers.); Americans bring up their children, as the British do, but they also raise or rear them; AE has both curtains and drapes , but they are different things: BE uses curtains for what AE speakers call drapes ; AE has both deck chair and beach chair , not, as implied, the latter instead of the former; likewise, AE has dressing gown as well as robe and bathrobe , but a dressing gown is more likely to be somewhat fancier; Americans know many games of solitaire , of which patience is just one; both crayfish and crawfish are used in AE, and it is about time that the old (British) fiction that Americans say railroad for what the British call a railway was put to rest: for at least two generations, one of the biggest companies in the US was called Railway Express .

  • All calls placed on airphones were from the rear of the aircraft.

  • What about the Bulldog in the Manger (Bldg. Mgr. in rear) I see listed in apartment blocks?


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast