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Sentences with oar

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  • The two men were oaring their way across the lake
  • He put in his oar and was told to mind his own business.
  • His life was spared because his daughter Hypsipyle set him adrift in an oarless boat.
  • The ship can be easily steered with just the oars doing all the work when the sail is down.
  • Once he became president, he was content to rest on his oars.
  • Slowly, she got into the rowing boat, shipped the oars and made her way across to the centre of the river.
  • The eight occupants of the boat take to the oars, pulling hard against the wind and waves.
  • He is considered by many as the best ‘stroke’ oar in the long history of lightweight rowing at Harvard.
  • He relates the importance of the thole, which secures the oar to the boat, and notes that towing was the expedition's worst job assignment.
  • The canoe slowed down to a stop and Pierce set the oars back in the boat.
  • They're oared to the docks where a Guild Estimator boards and examines the cargo, noting its quality and determining the number of lots that will go up for sale.
  • Sailors pushed up and down on the oars like a water pump to manoeuvre the boat.
  • In May, foods and prayers are offered to Tin Hau, the goddess of fishermen, and the following month the brightly decorated Dragon Boats are oared swiftly in races through Hong Kong's waters.
  • It is the place where an oarless boat full of refugees from the Holy Land washed ashore not long after Jesus was crucified.
  • The starboard oars dipped into the water and were held fast and the great ship slowed and stopped.
  • Each boat contains a crew of two and each crew rows an identical 7.1 metre boat that includes two sliding seats and the same sculling oars as used in standard rowing boats.
  • As well as traditional rowing oars and sculls, they manufacture oars for surf boat rowing, and transatlantic teams.
  • The inhabitants of the area have long sailed, poled and oared their way along the delta's vast network of channels, which, in the pre-French era linked them to Southeast Asia's expanding markets.
  • She saw a small wooden dock, and a wooden rowboat with two oars floating in the water.
  • Floating in an oarless boat, they eventually arrived at the southern coast of France.
  • Organised by the Gauteng Dragon Boat Association, long boats and oars will be provided for participants who do not have their own team boat.
  • Sitting high in the water their oars were clearing the waves and the crew looked polished and clean.
  • They pull hard at the oars until the boat is abreast of the island, and then they ram the bow against its icy littoral.
  • After dark, we could hear the sound of oars of an approaching dinghy.
  • Kaishek failed to notice the concealed motion and came at his opponent with both blades swirling like the oars of a seven man regatta rowing boat.
  • The person on the port side all the way aft is the stroke oar, the rower who sets the pace that everyone else must match.
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