Example Sentences

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She liked teaching the skating intricacies needed in hockey and felt like all of her skills from competitive figure skating and her time as a competitive water skier in college had come together.

From Washington Post • Jan. 25, 2022

Some of them took issue with the marriage of Vittoria’s grandfather, the exiled son of the last king, to a former competitive water skier who wasn’t a noble.

From New York Times • May 9, 2021

The old mark for a water skier being towed by a blimp or airship was nearly 5 miles.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2018

He’d been fit most of his life—he was an avid water skier and maintained a calisthenics routine that included push-ups, crunches and chair dips.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2016

He coasted on downwinds, rode like a water skier on turbulent winds, and soared on light breezes.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George