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How to use larboard in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word larboard? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Styles stood there with his sea legs planted firmly to adjust to the larboard list.
He let out a sigh, tucked the new information aside, and stepped to join the conversation taking place to larboard.
Walking to larboard, he tipped the bucket over watching the crab sail down the side of Indefatigable, back from whence it came.
Bowles gave the order to bring the Indy on a northeasterly larboard tack.
The boat made a sharp half-turn to larboard, and then shot off in its new direction like a thunderbolt.
Opening fire with his larboard battery, he positioned Neptune off the Spanish vessel's starboard beam and the two exchanged heavy fire for the next hour as more British ships poured through the gap astern of Neptune.
The schooner ploughed on Northerly for a minute longer, before tacking again to lay herself half a mile in advance of the nearer corvette, now up on their larboard quarter.
Pytheas crossed the waters northward from Berrice, in the north of the British Isles, but whether to starboard, larboard, or straight ahead is not known.
Examples from Classical Literature
On the larboard side of the ship was placed the accommodation ladder, leading from the gangway to the water.
Directly afterwards the French frigate ran up on our larboard and lee quarter, and yawing rapidly, fired into us.
They were the men of the larboard watch, waiting for eight bells which was imminent.
I shall take the starboard watch, and Captain Briskett the larboard.
On the route he more than once sighted land on the larboard.
Our larboard bow-chaser was fired, but the Algerine took no notice of it.
Should I range, up on the larboard quarter, do you lie, on the starboard.
You, Velsers and Rock, gain the fo'c'sl from larboard and starboard.
But my orders were, that the larboard watch should remain on deck.
A little later the larboard fore-sheet went, and the sail was split.
By this accident we lost three men overboard with the caboose, and nearly the whole of the larboard bulwarks.
The moon crossed her silvering wake from larboard quarter to starboard.
Took larboard watch eight bells last night, was relieved by Amramoff, but did not go to bunk.
Consequently, the larboard watch was ordered to lay in his pole.
The reef on which we had struck was close in under the southwest end of Mull, off a little isle they call Earraid, which lay low and black upon the larboard.
The boats were here hailed, to tow the whale on the larboard side, where fluke chains and other necessaries were already prepared for securing him.
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