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
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
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
The lessons start with simple movements practised before your mirror—holding out your hand for a coin, the breast-stroke in swimming, etc.
From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
