oarsman

Example Sentences

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“I mean, he epitomizes what it takes to be a successful oarsman or oarswoman.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2023

Their fate wasn’t discovered until 1808, when the captain of an American merchant ship anchored just off Pitcairn Island heard a local oarsman speaking “crisp and proper English.”

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2022

He'd hoped to be back as an oarsman within a day or two but he is still not in the best shape.

From BBC • May 1, 2021

Now I am drifting through a long afternoon, or beached like an oarsman who has run out of water.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2020

So, laying his staff and his bag of books under the rowers’ bench, Ged became for ten bitter days of winter an oarsman of that Northern ship.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin