oar
Example Sentences
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"It started flipping, and then I lost an oar and I knew I was in trouble," he recalled.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
She combined an oar, a vacuum cleaner hose and a long leather cord to block the handle, yanking on the cord from time to time if she saw slack.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 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
He also missed watching me heroically make rogue waves with my oar to get it to go in another direction.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2022
The old man reversed the oar and put the blade between the shark’s jaws to open them.
From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
Vocabulary lists containing oar
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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