How to Use oar in a Sentence

oar

noun

• The oar is on one side of the gears and the handle on the other.
  — Randy Artruc, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2019
• In the boat, the oar blades smear and scrape the river like knives over cream cheese.
  — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2021
• So, these oars seem primed to take you on a very long trip.
  — Mike Guiliano, Columbia Flier, 8 Sep. 2017
• The key was in the off position, the gear was in neutral and the oars were fastened to the side.
  — Lindsey Bever, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2018
• Both the home and road helmets have an oar right down the middle.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Moll perches in the boat’s narrow stern and plies the oars while the rest of us sit up front and take in the view.
  — Bennett Hall, The Seattle Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• The players should be paid, and the NCAA should be sent out to sea in a rowboat with no oars.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 18 Mar. 2018
• There are only the sounds of shouts far across the water and now and then the echoed thunk of an oar on a boat hull.
  — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 May 2020
• The oars are carved from Popsicle sticks from the canteen; the sail was snipped from a sheet.
  — Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2017
• Pinkston coach Derek Lewis has a reason for having the oar out.
  — Rick Kretzschmar, Dallas News, 15 Sep. 2022
• Showing off her new pink cast, True held an oar in the air while her mom looked on.
  — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
• There’s three parts to rowing a boat: there’s an oar, there’s a boat and there’s a compass.
  — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2017
• Understand, coxswains are considered the brain of the brawn that mans the oars.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
• The cover showed a man and a woman each holding an oar.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
• The Milwaukee Brewers would seem to have a lot of oars in the water these days.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Jan. 2018
• Hands bleed and callous, muscles tear, oars can snap back and crack a rib.
  — Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 24 Dec. 2023
• His left hand rests on the ground and his right hand on a block and a bit closer to his hip, to help mimic the angle of the oar.
  — Jillian Berman, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2018
• The Garv still needs an oar to handle those low and outside pitches.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Jan. 2024
• These structures have a concave shape, much like an oar.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2012
• But the shark only let go when frantic rescuers in a boat beat him with an oar.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 31 May 2017
• Instead of strengthening the oar, the tweak may have weakened its blade.
  — Kim O'Connell, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2022
• Her mother held it down with an oar while her father dispatched it with the swing of an ax.
  — James McWilliams, Outside Online, 10 June 2019
• Crabs that burrow or swim, such as blue crabs, might have flattened, oar-like pairs of hind legs.
  — National Geographic, 24 Apr. 2019
• Take three strokes, then a fourth motion without dipping the oar.
  — John Branch Adam Stoltman, New York Times, 14 July 2023
• At the signal, Thoms pulled so hard the oar broke, forcing officials to postpone the team’s heat.
  — Kim O'Connell, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2022
• There was a motor on the boat but the migrants were using oars in an effort to make landfall.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 11 June 2018
• In days past, sailors used steering oars to control boats, and since most people are right-handed, the oars were placed on the right side of the boat.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2023
• Many models provide a mount to add a trolling motor and adjustable seats and oar locks.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 3 Apr. 2020
• Their narrow bodies and thready legs look like racers' shells and oars.
  — Lynn Levin, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Less than a mile out, Matthew Friendly cuts the motor on his 18-foot boat and pokes an oar into the cold murky waters of the Bering Sea.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024