oars
(used as a command to the crew of a scull or other similar boat to cease rowing and hold the oars horizontal with blades feathered.)
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How to use oars in a sentence
The turbulent waters caused one of his oars to crack, which—without a motor or a sail—can be severely detrimental to his voyage.
Victor Mooney’s Epic Adventure for His Dead Brother | Justin Jones | October 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNear the banks, the water is shallow and her palm frond oars propel her.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is clear to you that she intends to use the staves as oars.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTKnife and fork push against one another rhythmically on the plate, like oars on a boat.
The Strange Way We Eat: Bee Wilson’s ‘Consider the Fork’ | Bee Wilson | October 13, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTWe steadied the boat with the oars, and I thought we were doing real good.
Navy Seal Training: The Start of Hell Week | Marcus Luttrell, Patrick Robinson | May 8, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
They were provided with sails and twelve oars each, and a falconet, or small brass cannon.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellAbout the same time it was discovered that the boats had neither oars, nor rudders, nor supplies of food.
The Red Year | Louis TracyThe boatmen sang in deep and almost tragic voices as they plied the enormous oars.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensThe six men pulled with a long stroke, their oars dipping along the surface of the sea as they feathered them.
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange KiellandWhen they did at length break silence, it was in short interjectional remarks, as they resumed the oars.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. Ballantyne
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