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

These threshed the water in a sort of breast-stroke, propelling the body forward.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Bates, Harry

As the fish flickered past, Mel and Bud saw the frogmen breast-stroke up toward the surface and break water.

From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Brey, Charles

Resisting an impulse to try the breast-stroke, he stood in the full glare of the straining sun, just outside the Senate Office Building.

From Occasion for Disaster by Garrett, Randall