Sentence examples for off the oar from inspiring English sources

I waved, taking one hand off the oar.

I wanted to throw them overboard but couldn't take a hand off the oar.

The boatmen are remarkably deft - one touch of the oar and you're off in a different direction seconds before what looked like being a major accident with three other overloaded punts.

"Never let go of the oar".

At one point, a few droplets of water coming off the oars of our boat splattered on the back of my hand.

"Just loosen your grip on the oar and watch stroke.

This would be said "one hand on the dock/ready to shove/and shove" If needed, have the bow, dockside oars push off the dock with their oars.

A practical man and a talented observer with a vivid imagination, Anaximenes noted the rainbows occasionally seen in moonlight and described the phosphorescent glow given off by an oar blade breaking the water.

There was the oar.

"I've put down the oar.

You pull the oar back from right to left.