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How to use starboard in a sentence

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A fire erupted in the starboard engine and the pilot was unable to feather the propeller.
Wood and brass greeted us and we settled into our seats on the starboard side just under the wing's trailing edge.
As the ship hauled out into the stream, her bow was swung by the tide downward, and her helm was put to the starboard.
Reaching the shrouds hanging from Kaliakra's starboard side, he began his ascent.
If a vessel veers off the channel to port the light becomes red and veering to starboard shows a green light.
His cruiser had blasted more holes into the starboard side of the alien mothership.
The large fallen box structure with a post sticking out to starboard is the gun mount.
The starboard ski did a backward somersault over the tail section just as Mike and his crew had feared.
We head offshore, speeding across deeper water, but another skiff off our starboard bow seems to have the same idea.
He confirmed that my wheel had gone, but that the starboard wheel and undercart appeared to be intact.
Before the bows are the remains of another mast and port and starboard pairs of bollards.
I informed the pilot there was a large slick of engine oil down the starboard pylon.
The horses were unhitched from the front of the trailer and two pairs hitched each side to heavy port and starboard booms.
The sail of Dolphin luffed in the breeze, still taut on the starboard braces.
He forgot his musing when the Blue Horizon banked to the starboard and then suddenly bucked upward.
The engine room, its bulkheads and ballast tanks were flooded and its starboard decks were awash.
The moon before them was now at starboard, and other large elliptical masses blocked the fore and top viewports along with numerous asteroids.
The crew chief was underneath the starboard sponson, trying to unseat the landing-gear pin, when my copilot released the brakes.
The ship lost its sonar dome and the starboard stabiliser in the grounding.
The starboard oars dipped into the water and were held fast and the great ship slowed and stopped.
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Our helm was put to starboard, and by sheering a little to the other side, we escaped the dreaded blow.
This unexpected monster was on our starboard bow, and the order to avoid the shoal was putting us headfirst into it.
The wind was full on their starboard beam, the mainsail and yawl were bellied out, and the boat was driving straight for home.
By way of reply Mr. Barr went to the starboard wall of the cabin and pulled a lever connecting with a worm gear.
Gadabout sidled to starboard, and grapnels were thrown up into the trees to hold her alongshore.
Instantly his disrupter burst appeared on the screen off the starboard bow of the black enemy.
He ran and jumped into the sea, just forward of the starboard lower-studdingsail-boom.
In walking along her gun-deck, he accidentally ran against a ratline, by which one of her starboard guns was discharged.
With a will, the great main-yard swung round to starboard, the sea rover paying off handsomely.
The only blemish on the seascape was a troop of bergs, six in number, out yonder to starboard.
To the starboard we had all the way the country of the Wends, as far as the mouth of the Vistula.
The starboard quarter grated against the piling, and the open stern windows overhung the stringpiece for a moment.
A storm of wind and rain was raging, blowing from the starboard or seaward side.
The two other boats boarded on the starboard side, amid a hot fire of langrage of all sorts poured down upon them.
Her plank-sheer amidships was awash, and the water rolling in a green body from starboard to port and back again.
In a few minutes she yawed to starboard, and the main-sail was taken aback.
The starboard wing, parting from the lifeboat, had gashed a tree trunk, littering the ground with branches.
The snag now lay to port, the towhead to starboard, and holding a straight course the Missouri Belle crept slowly between them.
Both of us close-hauled, but we being starboard tack have the right of way.
She turned so that she could bring her starboard guns into action, and they did so feebly.
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