row
noun
a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line.
rower
-
a word derived from
row.
Example Sentences
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“Just excruciating,” says Mazzio, a former Olympic rower turned filmmaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The elite American rower arrived at 742-year-old Peterhouse college last fall having won the women’s coxless four at the 2025 World Championships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Haaland is playing in his first World Cup and has taken to the tournament like a Viking rower to water.
From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026
He represented Great Britain at the Olympics as a rower after competing in the university Boat Race against Oxford as a student.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
While 75-80 percent of the energy a rower produces in a two-thousand-meter race is aerobic energy fueled by oxygen, races always begin, and usually end, with hard sprints.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
