He was looking her over carefully from stem to stern.
No more, at least, than from stem to stern of the ship.
They took up fishing instead, with long lines trailing from the stem.
She felt it from stem to tip with the end of her tongue.
The eye grows out from the stem to become a bud.
Count three buds along them from the main stem, then cut.
The ship was empty of men from stem to stern.
We've been over it from stem to stern four distinct times.
They go over Christine from stem to stern, looking for evidence of what has happened.
New leaves may also eventually emerge from the remaining stem.