Sentence examples for oar across from inspiring English sources
We float down to find a boatman squatting upfront with an oar across his knees, ready to navigate the shallows; behind us, another mans the outboard engine.
They inspired two memoirs by Mr. Fairfax, "Britannia: Rowing Alone Across the Atlantic" and, with Ms. Cook, "Oars Across the Pacific," both published in the early 1970s.
At 2-2 atd atightight angle to shoot from, Oar whipped the ball across goal for Leckie, but rather than it being to his feet or to his head, it was to neither and a glorious opportunity went begging.
That night, the plan was put into operation, but the cable designed to run the boats across broke and the small oars weren't enough to paddle across the fast flowing river.
7 With your back to the obelisk inscription, turn left and cut diagonally across the Great Oar Meadow to join the track.
In phase four, the "recovery," you move back toward the stern again with the oars blades skimming across the water.
She hears mostly the rhythmic slice of oar through current, the scraping of vessel across reeds bent in submission to the water's downward flow.
And it must be said that even "The Isle of the Dead," with its rhythms suggesting the oar strokes that convey the departed soul across the water, exists mostly in a world of feeling rather than scene painting.
Just get to the sea and crack anything coming behind you across the face with an oar.
A squash racket serves as the oar with which Charon (Reuben Liversidge) ferries Orpheus across the River Styx while some very clever movement portrays both the boat and the river's swells.
