Sentence examples for rowing from inspiring English sources

I dimly recall hiring a rowing boat two decades ago, and getting about 200 metres along the coast in it before giving up and deciding to head back.

My maritime experience extended as far as an hour in a rowing boat in Colwyn Bay.

Aides subsequently suggested Cameron's reply means he wants government departments that may criticised – the Foreign Office, intelligence agencies and government law officers – not to further delay the publication by rowing over the contents of the report.

In fact, people are barely rowing at all.

One Cambridge student, who wanted to remain anonymous, says: "We have to cram about 10 weeks' worth of work into an eight-week term, while also doing extracurricular activities like plays and rowing.

It's like watching a tortoise try to climb into a rowing boat.

Everyone should be rowing.

In August a Romney adviser said the goal was to win 38% Latino support, but the campaign now appears to be rowing back from that unattainable target.In truth, the Latino Republican victories of 2010 were the result of a national rightward swing and the circumstances of individual states.

But that will be little consolation if organisers have to move the sailing and rowing events to somewhere cleaner.

The Labour government's record in its first three years shows that it is rowing against the same powerful tide that led to the sharp rise in inequality under the Conservatives in the 1980s.

So here's where I attempt to initiate a rowing revival: I've started to row a couple of times a week again, and I can't remember why I stopped.