Example Sentences

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Best not to dive too deep into that question but stay amazed at the forces that let them float and row with greater ease than the human sculler in a boat.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2023

But in the boathouses and on the docks, there is no more revered figure than the single sculler, who takes on exhausting races with no teammates to help.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2021

There had been celebrated antipodean sporting figures before Bradman, not least Henry Searle - the 'Clarence River Comet', a world champion sculler so popular that his premature death in 1889 sent the colonies into mourning.

From BBC • Dec. 3, 2013

For me, the gold medal has to go to Thomas Eakins for capturing the loneliness of the single sculler.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2012

White’s father had once been a standout single sculler, and his boy just lived and breathed rowing.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown