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

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

Ten minutes later, without help of the glass—his hand being too shaky to hold it steady—he saw the doctor in the water below him, swimming out to sea with a strong breast-stroke.

From Merry-Garden and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

These threshed the water in a sort of breast-stroke, propelling the body forward.

From Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 by Bates, Harry