Sentence examples for propelling myself from inspiring English sources

Here, I have to jump out of the water, propelling myself not against anything as solid as the floor of the pool but simply by straightening my bent arms and legs to achieve lift.

My evening is spent on a stair climber, steadily propelling myself upwards for hours at a time while going nowhere.

My evening is spent on a stair climber, steadily propelling myself upward for hours at a time while going nowhere.

If somebody buried me in the earth, I'd be able to propel myself out of it.

The Benefits Some of my best ideas have surfaced as I propelled myself through water, worldly stresses soothed by the steady rhythm of my strokes.

If I had all that energy back — all the hours and neurochemicals and facial musculature I have expended in my wanton pursuit of likedness — I could propel myself to Mars and back.

I could, I said, work out how to clip the drips and drains on to a kind of trolley thing and use it to propel myself to the room with the table and the toast.

Holding the bathhouse doorway with both hands as if ready to parachute, I propelled myself down the stairs, skittered across the pool deck and fell into the serenely warm water.

I propel myself to the bottom of the pool, bend my legs and spring to the surface, enjoying myself and generally feeling like the T.S.I. logo, a hybrid of a human and a dolphin.

But later, in my early 20's, with a regular income to spend on vacations, I propelled myself to warmer climates, surfing Rincón, Puerto Rico Blacks Beachh by San Diego; Sebastian Inlet by Cocoa Beach; Nags Head and Cape Hatteras.

Using a fixed rope to propel myself through the satiny smooth sand, leaving perfect footprints with every step, I climbed 100 feet above the camp and sat on a rise in silence, watching the landscape darken and the vanishing sun burnish the sky indigo, pink and crimson.