How to Use fore and aft in a Sentence

fore and aft

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• Fifty-foot sweeps, fore and aft, are used to guide the craft.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2019
• And the bow thrusters fore and aft might help save money on Xanax, too.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 13 Feb. 2020
• The Odyssey retains its second-row seats that slide fore and aft as well as side to side.
  — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 1 Sep. 2020
• Construction of the hull started with fore and aft stems fastened to the keel.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• At the same time, officers and men poured down the fore and aft gangways for reunions on the dock.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Dec. 2020
• The second-row captain’s chairs slide fore and aft for legroom and tip for third-row access.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 17 Oct. 2020
• But some ebikes look like heavy, miniature cars, with big wheels and cargo racks fore and aft.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 14 Sep. 2021
• The rear seat also reclines and has 8 inches of fore and aft travel.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2018
• The rear seats that slide fore and aft 6 inches to allow for more people or cargo space.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2019
• In Montana, the GPS searches for my salvation, fore and aft.
  — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2020
• The huge lids covering the drivetrain, fore and aft, serve as a giant bundling board.
  — G. Gordon Liddy, Car and Driver, 30 Sep. 2020
• Last summer, huge ads appeared fore and aft on city buses for oat milk.
  — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2020
• The fore and aft sterns, however, appear to have been destroyed by plowing, and the ship is thought to have once been up 56 feet long.
  — Fox News, 26 Nov. 2019
• The front passenger’s seat adjusts fore and aft, and for seatback angle, but not for height.
  — cleveland, 29 Feb. 2020
• The second row is roomy, and the chairs slide fore and aft to apportion legroom between the middle and rearmost seats as needed.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 9 Dec. 2022
• Both seats move fore and aft to make more room for third-row passengers or to maximize second-row legroom.
  — Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 21 Apr. 2018
• The design calls for two electric motors, fore and aft, totaling more than 600 hp.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2017
• The most obvious addition is the carbon-fiber blade, running fore and aft between the two seats, at neck height.
  — Jeremy Taylor, Robb Report, 26 May 2021
• The five-deck exterior is defined by large fore and aft overhangs and a closed transom.
  — Julia Zaltzman, Robb Report, 14 May 2021
• Arched doorways at either end of the central lounge lead to passenger quarters fore and aft.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2020
• For example, go back and forth between narrow and wide hands or the fore and aft positions of staggered hands.
  — Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2019
• After one or more repetitions, switch the fore and aft positions of your hands to work each side evenly.
  — Outside Online, 28 Feb. 2019
• The floors are flat, as a minivan's, should passengers wish to move fore and aft without exiting the vehicle.
  — Steve Spence, Car and Driver, 9 June 2020
• The second-row seats slide fore and aft to offer anywhere from sufficient to indulgent rear-seat legroom.
  — Jared Gall, Car and Driver, 10 Mar. 2020
• The logbook also had praise for the small switches mounted on the side of the passenger seat that allow the driver or rear passengers to move that seat fore and aft.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 30 July 2020
• Borrowed from the 918 and other Stuttgart exotica, the carbon-fiber shells move fore and aft, but the backrest is fixed and very upright.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 27 Mar. 2020
• The problem arises from a tendency for the center of pressure supporting the craft to move fore and aft with changes in altitude.
  — Abe Dane, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2020
• The carbon-fiber racing bucket seats only move fore and aft, but there's plenty of Alcantara trim and carbon-fiber bits to take in.
  — Juergen Zoellter, Car and Driver, 26 May 2021
• The power comfort seats recline, slide fore and aft, raise up and lower, and have lumbar and adjustable shoulder support.
  — Emma Jayne Williams, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• The right rear seat passenger could move the front passenger seat fore and aft as needed for more legroom, with buttons on the front seatback or the rear center armrest.
  — Emma Jayne Williams, star-telegram, 10 Feb. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Aug 2024