oar
Example Sentences
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"It started flipping, and then I lost an oar and I knew I was in trouble," he recalled.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
Slap the water with your paddle, oar or hand.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024
She combined an oar, a vacuum cleaner hose and a long leather cord to block the handle, yanking on the cord from time to time if she saw slack.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 4, 2023
The performer in front — actually Woods himself, with dancer Tamzin O’Garro behind — is wielding the cello bow as an oar.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2022
Then in the last quarter of a mile California unleashed the full power of their gigantic, gangly, but enormously strong stroke oar, six-foot-five Dick Burnley.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing oar
3-letter words, List 2
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Spelling Practice, Unit 8
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Spelling Practice 1, Unit 3
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