OAR in a Sentence

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82 example sentences for OAR, such as:

1. It was the leaves and rubbish on the raft and the smashed oar.
2. He was in the river under the stern oar, with just his nose out.
3. The blade of the oar had entangled itself with something in the water.
4. We didn't touch an oar, and we didn't speak nor whisper, nor hardly even breathe.
5. They shoved off, presently, Tom in command, Huck at the after oar and Joe at the forward.

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 Meanings and Examples of OAR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
oar
 n.  long, thin, usually wooden pole with a blade at one end, used to row or steer a boat
Classic Sentence: (80 in 6 pages)
1  They shoved off, presently, Tom in command, Huck at the after oar and Joe at the forward.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  We didn't touch an oar, and we didn't speak nor whisper, nor hardly even breathe.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII.
3  The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
4  It was the leaves and rubbish on the raft and the smashed oar.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV.
5  He was in the river under the stern oar, with just his nose out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
6  Each stroke of the oar seemed to awaken a new throng of ideas, which sprang up with the flying spray of the sea.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 113. The Past.
7  "Aye, aye, sir," cheerily cried little King-Post, sweeping round his great steering oar.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
8  Moreover, when the four boats were lowered, the mate's got the start; and none howled more fiercely with delight than did Steelkilt, as he strained at his oar.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
9  Pulling an oar in the Jeroboam's boat, was a man of a singular appearance, even in that wild whaling life where individual notabilities make up all totalities.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
10  But Fedallah, putting a finger on his lip, slid over the bulwarks to take the boat's steering oar, and Ahab, swinging the cutting-tackle towards him, commanded the ship's sailors to stand by to lower.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
11  Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
12  The glittering mouth yawned beneath the boat like an open-doored marble tomb; and giving one sidelong sweep with his steering oar, Ahab whirled the craft aside from this tremendous apparition.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
13  I hired men to row and took an oar myself, for I had always experienced relief from mental torment in bodily exercise.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
14  I threw down the oar, and leaning my head upon my hands, gave way to every gloomy idea that arose.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
15  Eight o'clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XLVI
Example Sentence:
1  The blade of the oar had entangled itself with something in the water.
2  The helm is made of two very large oars, firmly bound to a kind of bracket in front of the rear platform, and worked by a long curved stick.