Sentence examples for better swimming from inspiring English sources

From a bridge above the Serchio River near Castelnuovo di Garfagnana we saw schools of big trout in a deep-shaded, clean pool of the river — one of the better swimming holes in the Apuans, as it turned out.

Surely, I thought, Haverstock Ed of all people would know that one of the threats to the improvement and continuing excellence of state schooling lies in competition from unfairly privileged independent schools, which lure pupils with offers of ever better swimming pools and cricket pitches.

In this student's view, the evolution of webbed feet was necessary for better swimming and was caused "because [the ducks] lived in water" (ibid.; my emphasis).

For example, a student (labeled as 'student M') in this study gives following response to "questions about evolution of webbed the feet in a population of ducks": "The trait of webbed feet in ducks… appear in ducks because they lived in water and needed to swim… webbed feet allows better swimming.

Thus, here you find that, to this student, the "need" of better swimming would ultimately explain the evolution of webbed feet organisms need to change to be better adapted to the existing conditions in which they are living; but this need has arisen because of the conditions in which the organism finds itself, and these conditions are said to be an immediate cause of the adaptive change.

In our study, however, increased tail fin depth did not translate into a better swimming performance.

In contrast to the result found for froglets, which showed an impaired performance when reared in stressful environments, the stressful water level treatment produced tadpoles with better swimming performance than the treatment with a constant water level.

Species with these traits usually have better swimming performance and are capable of exploiting river reaches with faster current velocities [ 34].