Sentence examples for a rowing shell from inspiring English sources

Yale students acquired a rowing shell in 1843 and formed the first college sports club.

A rowing shell full of friends can offset even an empty nest.

The picture of four "canoeists" preparing for a paddle in a rowing shell ("Smog over Beijing can't dim the Olympic spirit", 5 August) perhaps explains why our flat-water canoe team has not been as successful as our rowers in recent times.

Canadian Silken Laumman strapping herself into a rowing shell so that she could hold her shattered leg steady long enough to win a bronze medal in Barcelona.

To row well and go fast, you must keep your shoulders down, your chin up, and your back straight -- even when all you really want to do in that tippy, skinny hull of a rowing shell is curl up and crouch down.

Parker had populated the shop with his preoccupations: wood bins and tool cabinets, tube amplifiers and bass scrolls, a tandem bicycle and a wooden rowing shell suspended from the rafters.

Affixing the portable Klepper kayak he had brought along with the sliding seat and oars of an Alden rowing shell, Porter rambled some 2,000 miles through the southern fjords by following the long-established portage routes of the Patagonian Indians.

Still, there is no bombast in the photograph of the designer wearing his magnifying eyeglasses and sitting almost forlornly in his Dymaxion rowing shell, a catamaran-like structure, nor is there any to be seen in his designs.

There, he climbs into his fiberglass rowing shell, which he navigates about five miles downriver to the Anacostia Community Boathouse.

The rowing shell section includes many photographs of groups of men in the 19th century showing off their torsos built up by rowing.

It's dawn when Gabriel Horchler climbs into his 21-foot Vespoli rowing shell at Bladensburg Waterfront Park and begins drifting downriver on the Anacostia.