How to use starboard in a sentence

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• The two boats were on a collision course, so they both veered starboard.From the entry collision course
• Ship ahoy, three points off the starboard bow!From the entry point
• Each eight has four ports and four starboards.From the entry port
• Ships crossing from starboard have right-of-way.From the entry cross
• It had folded itself in half and clamped into storage position, becoming part of the starboard rail.2014, Jeff Bredenberg, The Dream Vessel. From the entry backboard
• This time an almost defeated sigh was heard from both the larboard and starboard gun crews.2014, Barry D. Boothe, INFIDEL: Don’t Tread On Me. From the entry larboard
• These were the two invalids in the starboard sick-berth, whom Padeen had been sitting with.1994, Patrick O’Brian, chapter 1, in The Commodore, London: HarperCollins Publishers, published 2003, →ISBN, page 14. From the entry loggerhead
• Backing, she turned to starboard, past the end of the dock.1981, Robert Roderick, The Greek Position: A Novel, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry horse
• A mighty shudder ran through the frail craft; she lay far over to starboard; the engines stopped.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 115. From the entry wrack
• Riek's berth was on the starboard side with two women, and mine was on the leeboard side with two men.2010, George Sjouke Riemersma, 'Sa Wie It', page 85. From the entry leeboard
• Enemy boarding parties on starboard decks Eight through Ten.2001 November 15, Bungie, Halo: Combat Evolved, v1.0, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox, level/area: The Pillar of Autumn. From the entry boarding party
• At this time, the pilot watched the chock and tie-down on the starboard landing gear being removed by a Blue Shirt.1993, United States Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval Historical Center, Naval aviation news, page 7. From the entry blue shirt
• But we got the rear corner on the starboard side.1943, William Harrison Fetridge, The navy reader, page 207. From the entry coffin corner
• I heard the starboard steward Singing abaft the poop; He lewdly sang to looard And sleep fled from the sloop.1921, Christopher Morley, Plum Pudding. From the entry looard
• It struck us on the starboard side almost amidships.1918, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Land that Time Forgot, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008. From the entry torpedo
• Because the bellmouth was offset to the starboard side of the sump's centerline, the system was more susceptible to losing suction from a port list.2017 December 12, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.4.1 Loss of Propulsion”, in Marine Accident Report: Sinking of US Cargo Vessel…. From the entry bellmouth
• Even though the larboard gun crew was up first, the starboard crew had seen what was eventually to be their next target as well.2014, Barry D. Boothe, INFIDEL: Don’t Tread On Me. From the entry larboard
• Forward of the mizzenmast was an iron box in which the mainsheets worked, and to port and starboard were the leeboard winches, hand-worked.2014, Tristan Jones, A Steady Trade: A Boyhood at Sea, Open Road Media, →ISBN. From the entry leeboard
• The back rope was hauled over a roller, which fitted over the stem post, or in later years over the starboard bow.2014, McWilliams, John, The Cornish Fishing Industry. From the entry bulljowler
• The vessel will then be seen to lie to five shackles on the Port (Riding Cable) and five shackles on the starboard (Sleeping Cable).2007, David J. House, “Anchor Operations and Deployment”, in Ship Handling: Theory and Practice, Oxford, Oxfordshire; Burlington, Mass.…. From the entry shackle
• The attacking arm held up the forearm of his starboard manipulator and waved it around in victory in front of the ceramic dome.2006, Robert Wernli, Sunrise Cartel, page 116. From the entry sonofabitch
• Far off to starboard an Atlantic liner, all lights blazing, came towards us, corkscrewing with a motion which must have left the passengers unhappy.1960, Lobsang Rampa, chapter 5, in The Rampa Story. From the entry corkscrew
• The portside lounge in shades of tan and yellow seated sixty-six passengers while a TV Lounge on the starboard side could accommodate forty-eight passengers in a predominantly blue space.2010, Justin Merrigan, Ian Collard, Holyhead to Ireland: Stena and Its Welsh Heritage, →ISBN. From the entry portside
• The port and starboard walls were lined with three-tiered berths so close together that the occupant must enter by assuming a half sitting, half reclining position.1929, Viola Irene Cooper, Windjamming to Fiji, New York: A. L. Burt Company, →OCLC, page 114. From the entry rombowline
• Gowselling in the grummels he wakes the plaintiff night with pitfalls turning left to right, high noon on the wintry ocean, high noon all sides aboard and aloft to starboard.1936, Henry Miller, “Into the Night Life …”, in Black Spring, Paris: The Obelisk Press […], →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove…. From the entry grummel

Meaning of starboard

1. noun The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object.
2. noun One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two.
3. verb To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel.

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Questions about starboard in a sentence

How do you use starboard in a sentence?

Starboard is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I see another vessel off the starboard side.”

What is a short sentence with starboard?

“to starboard the helm”

What does starboard mean?

Starboard means the righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object.