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

Go and do a quarter of a mile breast-stroke every day.

From The Way of an Eagle by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)

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

He swims with smooth breast-stroke, his feet and hands below the water, but his wings raised above.

From The Trimming of Goosie by Hopper, James