breast-stroke

Example Sentences

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Peaty has a similar problem to Monye - and will have to get his body used to a little less breast-stroke, a little more ballroom.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2021

I kept following the current, swimming breast-stroke, trying to keep my head above water.

From National Geographic • Dec. 16, 2017

Ten minutes later, without help of the glass—his hand being too shaky to hold it steady—he saw the doctor in the water below him, swimming out to sea with a strong breast-stroke.

From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Weights pulled at the arms as they swept back the water in the breast-stroke.

From The Fighting Edge by Raine, William MacLeod

I reached the ridge on the opposite side of the bay without fatigue, not changing from a powerful breast-stroke.

From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)