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

His breast-stroke was a thing to see and wonder at.

From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)

Weights pulled at the arms as they swept back the water in the breast-stroke.

From The Fighting Edge by Raine, William MacLeod