Sentence examples for swim a long from inspiring English sources

It might have been good advice if I was planning to race, swim a long distance or battle a stiff current.

"He wanted to learn how to swim a long time ago and then started asking for lessons again recently," said Ms. Sultan, 51, who owns a two-family house with her husband and sister.

I can't argue with the sheer number of people who have challenged themselves to swim a long way in fairly grisly conditions and spend several hours swimming in the rain and cold.

It's worth building up your distances in the pool over the winter if you intend to swim a long way in the sea, and you can improve your general fitness with a bit of running and rowing, or other aerobic and endurance work.

"That river had to be a large river with a low gradient and it had to swim a long way up," Jacobs said.

The asymmetry in her musculature had disappeared, Nelms says, and she had become the only woman in the world ever to swim a long-course hundred-metre backstroke in less than a minute — 59.58 seconds, to be precise, which Jim Coughlin maintains is the only one of his daughter's performance times he has ever been able to remember.

The sauteed Dover sole meunière deserved to be spanking fresh, but this fish had swum a long way and was tough and tired from the voyage.

I think it probably got lost or disoriented and ended up swimming a long way, and was probably in serious danger when the fisherman reached it".

Talbot reacted to the performance by dubbing Thorpe as "the greatest swimmer we've [Australia] ever had", whilst four-time American Olympic gold medalist Rowdy Gaines, commentating for NBC, said "...he went into a balls-out sprint at 250 – and I have never seen anything like that...I have been around swimming a long time and it's the most amazing swim I've ever seen, hands down".

Avoid collisions with divers by not swimming a long way under water in a pool, especially in low light or darkness.

If you are going to do very hard swimming or swimming for a long time, bring a sport drink like power aid or make some juice and put it in a bottle.