breast-stroke

Example Sentences

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Peaty has a similar problem to Monye - and will have to get his body used to a little less breast-stroke, a little more ballroom.

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2021

I kept following the current, swimming breast-stroke, trying to keep my head above water.

From National Geographic • Dec. 16, 2017

I reached the ridge on the opposite side of the bay without fatigue, not changing from a powerful breast-stroke.

From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Presently turning on his chest for the breast-stroke he struck his knee, and immediately stood up: “Mark!”

From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard

Resisting an impulse to try the breast-stroke, he stood in the full glare of the straining sun, just outside the Senate Office Building.

From Occasion for Disaster by Garrett, Randall