REAR in a Sentence

Learn REAR from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

178 example sentences for REAR, such as:

1. The mud could mire their rear wheels.
2. His room was toward the rear of the hotel.
3. The hotel overlooks the river to the rear.
4. Smoking is only allowed at the rear of the aircraft.
5. The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity.

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 Meanings and Examples of REAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rear
 n.  side of an object that is opposite its front; hind part; point or area farthest from the front
Classic Sentence: (166 in 12 pages)
1  Scarlett knew that the fragrance carried on the faint breeze came from the grove of great oaks in the rear of the big house.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  By this time Scarlett was boiling, ready to rear like a horse at the touch of a strange rough hand on its bridle.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  Johnston was forced to abandon the heights he had held so well, in order to protect his rear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  When, at last, they had neared Rough and Ready, a few camp fires were gleaming where the last of Steve Lee's rear guard was awaiting orders to fall back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Mrs. Bogart lived across the alley from the rear of Carol's house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  Bathing and modeling were equally sound occasions for legs; the wedding-scene was but an approach to the thunderous climax when Mr. Schnarken slipped a piece of custard pie into the clergyman's rear pocket.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Abashed boys slunk into the rear pews and giggled, while milky little girls, up front with their mothers, self-consciously kept from turning around.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  The rear of the Bon Ton Store was grim with blistered black-painted iron shutters, under them a pile of once glossy red shirt-boxes, now a pulp from recent rain.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  Carol was conscious that Erik was climbing in, that she was apparently to sit in the back, and that she had been left to open the rear door for herself.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  Then the Captain knows that Jonah is a fugitive; but at the same time resolves to help a flight that paves its rear with gold.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
11  He put his hand upon the sleeper's rear, as though feeling if it was soft enough; and then, without more ado, sat quietly down there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
12  Starbuck and Stubb both had the start of him; and yet they also have the privilege of lounging in the rear.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
13  Instantly the three spread boats in the rear paused on their way.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
14  Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither before us; while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable sea-ravens.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
15  Corresponding to the crescent in our van, we beheld another in our rear.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
Example Sentence:
1  The mud could mire their rear wheels.
2  His room was toward the rear of the hotel.
3  Reporters prepare to intercept him if he tries to leave by the rear entrance.
4  The helm is made of two very large oars, firmly bound to a kind of bracket in front of the rear platform, and worked by a long curved stick.
5  Smoking is only allowed at the rear of the aircraft.
6  The hotel overlooks the river to the rear.
7  Lions usually manage to rear about half the number of cubs born to them.
8  Were these rear yards once connected as a thoroughfare? Alas, old maps of Bushwick don't shed any light on the situation.
9  "It is a very good height indeed!" said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke.
10  I was born in Fort Worth but we moved around a lot and I was reared in east Texas.
11  A horse whinnied and reared; the troop trotted quickly out of the inn yard towards the high road.
12  The great majority of barn owls are reared in captivity.