Oar

//ɔː//

"Oar" in a Sentence (16 examples)

The rower blames his oar.

He hung an old, wooden oar on his wall as a decoration.

Should one use a pickaxe or an oar to mine ore?

Where's the oar?

"Grant us to draw our scattered fleet ashore, / and fit new planks and branches for the oar. / So, if with king and comrades brought again, / the Fates allow us to reach Italia's shore, / Italia gladly and the Latian plain / seek we."

He swore like a madman and jabbed at me with an oar, for he must have seen death in my eyes.

He swore like a madman and jabbed at me with an oar, for he must have seen death in my eyes. I got past it and got one in with my stick that crushed his head like an egg.

"First must Trinacrian waters bend the oar, / Ausonian waves thy vessels must explore, / first must thou view the nether world, where flows / dark Styx, and visit that AEaean shore, / the home of Circe, ere, at rest from woes, / thou build the promised walls, and win the wished repose."

Tom can't stop sticking his oar into every conversation.

Can you own an oar for a river this year?

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The oar snaps in his hand Before he reaches dry land But the sound doesn't deafen his smile Just pokes at wet sand With an oar in his hand Floats off down the river Nile Floats off down the river Nile...

He is a good oar.

The weather was fine, and whilst oaring along I would fain have landed on the islands between; but fearful of a change, and already half worn-out by my previous trail, I let them go by with the comforting resolve of turning them up on some future occasion.

Turning the long tables upside down — and there were twelve of them — they seated themselves, one behind another, within the upturned table tops as though they were boats and were about to oar their way into some fabulous ocean.

In Nopsca's theory, flight evolved as a means of running more quickly over the ground: "Birds originated from bipedal, long-tailed cursorial reptiles which during running oared along in the air by flapping their free anterior extremities."

HD HBO is generally not as good as Showtime HD. Showtime is leaving movies in the OAR (16X9), while HBO insists on butchering the movies to pan and scan. In addition, Showtime is broadcasting in 5.1 Dolby Digital surround...sounds amazing.

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