Sentence examples for oar on from inspiring English sources

The second blow hit the neck like a boat oar on a hay bale.

FOR a summertime meal with a Caribbean vibe, it's hard to do better than the Blue Oar, on the banks of the Connecticut River.

Still, he served as class president, helped found the student newspaper, held an oar on the rowing crew and was captain of the tug-of-war team.

It is hypnotically serene – out in the great wide open, no sounds except the gentle scrape of the wooden oar on the pebbled waterbed, the occasional cry of a bird, the wind rustling through the banana trees.

The minute details and the gossamer sheen of his watercolors excavate the very sensations that have created the warp and weft of Kashmiri life — be it the memory of oar on water, the autumn russet of chinars, shrines and bazaars, and the snow so intimate to the Kashmiri soul.

– David Cameron, who had to move his jubilee party indoors as rain soaked Downing Street "It was thought I would not look elegant in the Lycra" – London mayor Boris Johnson explaining why he turned down the offer of an oar on Gloriana for a place on the Havengore, the launch which carried the coffin of Winston Churchill to his funeral.

There were no oars on the dinghy.

The traditional way of rigging a boat places rowers alternately pulling oars on each side of the boat.

He promised to help the Venetian Navy, at the Arsenale, regain its primacy, by using physics to improve the placement of oars on the convict-rowed galleys.

In 1709 he built a man-powered paddle-wheel boat that successfully demonstrated the practicability of using the paddle wheel in place of oars on steam-driven ships.

The Vikings' longships were small galleys with up to 10 oars on a side and a square sail and were capable of carrying 50 or 60 men.