oarsman
Example Sentences
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Their fate wasn’t discovered until 1808, when the captain of an American merchant ship anchored just off Pitcairn Island heard a local oarsman speaking “crisp and proper English.”
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2022
He'd hoped to be back as an oarsman within a day or two but he is still not in the best shape.
From BBC • May 1, 2021
Baldomero Ballesteros Sr. was a local champion oarsman, with the same long arms and strong will as his youngest son.
From Golf Digest • Apr. 13, 2020
A young oarsman at the Iraqi Rowing Union finishes an afternoon sculling session on the Tigris.
From The Guardian • Mar. 17, 2013
It also helped that he was strikingly good- looking and built like the oarsman he had been, the former stroke oar of a Washington crew that had won national championships in 1924 and 1926.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
