oar
Example Sentences
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Slap the water with your paddle, oar or hand.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
A transatlantic rowing crew have been forced to patch up their boat with an empty champagne bottle and a broken oar after being attacked by a marlin.
From BBC • Jan. 11, 2024
With sculling, each rower holds an oar in each hand; with sweep rowing, each rower holds one oar with both hands.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 29, 2023
The performer in front — actually Woods himself, with dancer Tamzin O’Garro behind — is wielding the cello bow as an oar.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2022
And Ran Laurie handled the stroke oar an awful lot like Don Hume.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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3-letter words, List 2
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Spelling Practice, Unit 8
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Spelling Practice 1, Unit 3
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