English example sentences with "oars"

This boat has six oars.
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All the boats are equipped with oars.
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Fish use their fins as oars.
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All in the golden afternoon / Full leisurely we glide; / For both our oars, with little skill, / By little arms are plied, / While little hands make vain pretence / Our wanderings to guide.
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Where are the oars?
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Accordingly they turned their prows homeward; but, as there was no wind, they had to use their oars, and made way but slowly.
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But when the day closed in, and the night put an end to their banquet, it suddenly seemed to them that all the earth was in a blaze; and from the open came a sound of splashing oars, as if a great fleet were approaching.
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The anchors of the vessels stuck so fast in the mud that they could not be drawn up. The oars as soon as dipped were shattered in pieces.
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They dipped and raised their oars in a rhythmic fashion.
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I need to buy a new a pair of oars for my rowboat.
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I need to buy a new a set of oars for my rowboat.
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The shattered oars start forth; / round swings the prow, and lets the waters sweep / the broadside. Onward comes a mountain heap / of billows, gaunt, abrupt.
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With feathered oars he cleaves the skies, and straight / on Libya's shores alighting, speeds his hest.
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No longer tarrying; to our oars we lean. / Down drop the sails; in order ranged, each crew / flings up the foam to heaven, and sweeps the sparkling blue.
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Close by the water, in a sheltered bay, / a few guardians of the oars we choose, / then stretched at random on the beach we lay / our limbs to rest, and on the toil-worn crews / sleep steals in silence down, and sheds her kindly dews.
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"Behold / Charybdis!" cries Anchises, "'tis the shore, / the dreaded rocks that Helenus foretold. / Row, comrades, for dear life, and let the oars catch hold."
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He spake, 'twas done; and Palinurus first / turns the prow leftward: to the left we ply / with oars and sail, and shun the rocks accurst.
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Tom equipped his bark with both sails and oars, so that even if there were no wind blowing, he could still row back to the dock.
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She sat down and took up the oars.
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In a wooden box in a drawer she kept a faded colour photograph of her father sitting in his rowing boat, leaning forwards with his arms outstretched, his hands gripping the oars.
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He sat down and took up the oars.
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Tom and Mary are out on a lake in a rowing boat. Tom pushes the oars rhythmically into the crystal-clear water, leaving a foamy trail in the wake of each plunge.
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During the 1800’s, keelboats were used for both upriver and downriver navigation, propelled using either oars or poles, while flatboats could only go downriver.
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Were there any oars in that rowing boat?

Are there any oars in that rowing boat?

The oars caught among the lily-pads; this gave her an excuse for pulling and wrenching at them.

And as the heroes listened, the oars fell from their hands, and their heads drooped on their breasts, and they closed their heavy eyes; and they dreamed of bright still gardens, and of slumbers under murmuring pines, till all their toil seemed foolishness, and they thought of their renown no more.