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Sentence Examples Once the sneakbox was in the water it could be rowed using oars, sailed or moved by its outboard motor. There was no wind after they left for six days so they rowed and arrived at a nightless island called Lamnos. Heather, at the wedding with her boyfriend, has rowed with her cousin Lorna, who turns her nose up at everything about Kilronan. We sent up our luggage and servants by a caique, a long, narrow, flat-bottomed boat, rowed by sculls. Englishman Simon Chalk will be official record-holder for the fastest rowed crossing of the Indian Ocean after all. Again the same tactic of constant rhythm was employed and we eventually rowed them down. Speaking of three people aboard, the dory rowed and handled surprisingly well with two at the oars and one on the sternsheets steering. Spectators lined the shore cheering as actors in 18th-century style uniforms and three-pointed tricorn hats rowed ashore. Tawaret has the head of a hippo, Thoth the head of an ibis, and the great sun god Ra is rowed across the heavens in a boat. The others, even the ones who had never rowed before this day, feathered their oars like pros and smiled like kids in the candy store. To others I said I rowed all the way by myself in a boat and they swallowed that as well. We ate some breakfast and jumped into our rafts and rowed down to the southeastern end of Otter Lake. When his family rowed with him, he simply began spending even more time with Eyre, playing into his hands. He locked the peashooter inside a metal box, rowed out to the sea in a boat, and dumped the box over the side. He was an imposing figure, a cross between Humpty Dumpty and a brigadier, who had rowed hard in his youth. I was feeling lousy and sick and rowed as badly as I had at the beginning of the week. Charlie and Barb rowed me into shore, toured the island and visited the cave. We rowed to the hulk from which it was planned to swim to the jut of the foreshore. Afterwards, in the BBC's Green Room, she apparently rowed back on the threats issued to the corporation. The women's junior 15 coxed quad also rowed over the course without competition. Show More Sentences The group appears to have rowed back on its plans to open an outlet in Ireland. He has rowed back on criticism he made of the manner in which orthodontic assessment clinics are held in Sligo. Kelly rowed to gold in this event as a junior last year and as stroke today she was moving the boat at a solid 32 strokes per minute. During the tour participants would rotate so that each day they rowed with a different crew. Neither of the teams have rowed before but each boat has three experienced rowers to help them. Polymeros described the chemistry that has existed between the two of them ever since they rowed together as club rowers. DeFrantz rowed for the United States at the 1976 Olympics winning bronze in the women's eight. Some clearly rowed their hardest races to reach the finals and were unable to repeat the effort in the final. Teti rowed on the national team for over a decade before becoming coach at Princeton University for nine years. I went out to a swamp and sat in the middle of a canoe while George and Stephen rowed me. On his retirement in 1992, CDRE McKay was rowed across the lake in a Navy dinghy. Campus staff occasionally rowed out to the lake centre in a wooden boat to spread fish food more evenly onto the lake surface. One day, Ramsay three times pushed the boat away from shore as the men rowed across from their encampment to commence work. She rowed well for a dozen strokes and then one of the nylon rowlocks snapped. I dropped the sail, rowed a line over to the dock, and began windlassing my way in. They are then put on boats and rowed out on to the lake, anchored with rocks and buoyed up by plastic pop bottles, which act as floats. The freshmen eight rowed downstream for three and a halt miles in easy stretches and return, being coached from the launch by Coach Kennedy. Those who were not sold quickly were carried down to the rocks where the sea breaks, forced into dinghies, and rowed out to waiting ships. Both companies have rowed back on plans for the roll-out of digital television services. Gillett, 29, took up competitive cycling in 2000, having rowed for Australia at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Show More Sentences He has rowed back on some of the promises that once brought the progressives' loudest cheers. We will take one of the longboats and try to find which little river they rowed up. As we were rowed back to the Assi Ghat, the boat veered a little towards the shores where the funeral pyres were burning. It was still flat calm as I rowed out to fish on the drift, using my bank outfit. There rode ships from France, England, Holland, China and Japan, while innumerable boats and gilded barges rowed by sixty men plied to and fro. We had confidence in our abilities from our race against Leander in which we had rowed them down round the bigger Surrey bend. The tiny boat rowed closer and closer to shore, but still outside of shouting distance. This was rowed from ship to ship and the ship's company in each case were assembled to witness the punishment. Hamilton, mortally wounded, was rowed to Greenwich Village, where he died the following day. But while this resulted in a clear advantage over Pembroke, it made no impression on Magdalen, who rowed over with their initial lead undented. He was still smiling as the boat hit the water and until we had rowed so far away that he was indistinguishable from the other people still on the ship. Forty oared vessels driven by 500 oarsmen, many dressed in period costume, rowed from Greenwich to Westminster, retracing the route of Nelson's coffin. I continued rowing at university for the University of London and after graduation rowed for 7 more years at the Tyrian Club. I rowed on with my mouth open and pointing skywards, regularly licking the stream of fresh water from my shoulders and upper arms. He told the youngest daughter, Alice, a story as they rowed along and she begged him to write it down. Rival camps of historians have published petitions and rowed on television. They rowed along the south shore of the river, as the water seemed to be calmer there. The load in the boat was redistributed: two persons sat on the middle seat and rowed together, the third person sat on the forward seat. Perfect for anchoring offshore or exploring hidden lakes and inlets, Dinghy models can easily be rowed or powered by small motors. He liked to be rowed out to the middle of the lake at midnight to listen to nocturnal alphorn playing. Show More Sentences Odysseus ordered his men to stuff their ears with beeswax as they rowed by. He had lost the employment through no fault of his own, rowed with his girlfriend and the combination led him to relapse into drinking and taking too many pills. Warships at this time were propelled by a number of oarsmen which rowed the boat if it came becalmed or it was necessary to manoeuvre it in battle. I know one particular man who actually got a rowing boat and went across in his dinner hour and welded spanners, wedges and hammers to the bulk head and rowed back again. Back in Dublin he rowed for the university and captained the golf team. The club has found some people reluctant or nervous about taking on this new challenge as they haven't rowed before and feel they will make a hames of it. The Rio Grande split into two channels, and we rowed to port and took the American side. A passerby on shore heard the cries for help, broke a window in a yacht club, grabbed a pair of oars, slipped a punt in the water and rowed out to where he heard the shouting. He rowed all night long, oblivious of the fact that he had neglected to cast loose the rope with which the boat was tied. Of those that reached the shores of Formosa and splashed through the water to the junks, we hurried to untie the ships and rowed fiercely regardless of the winds. She rowed the boat down the waterway, her anger slowly subsiding. When about 50 yards from the shore the pinnaces cast off, leaving the boats to be rowed to the beach by their naval crews, under covering fire from the warships. They took the ship's boat and rowed to shore in the dead of night. As we rowed down the river I could see fish in a reed fringed bay. The prime minister and the governor of Bangkok have even rowed in public over which of them has authority to open particular sluice gates. He was also involved in rowing for many years and had few equals in that sport especially when he rowed in the Bluebird in the late sixties and early seventies. It was the very first time that I ever rowed in a competitive event. Having thankfully rowed back on the plan to re-introduce third level fees, he has announced a package of E42 million for educational disadvantage. The Government has rowed back on the Freedom of Information Act. The Government has rowed back on plans to extend a successful prison rehabilitation project into all jails, according to a leading criminal expert. Show More Sentences With three minutes to go, and the race still in contention, it was a flashback to this time last year when Oxford rowed Cambridge down around the outside of the last bend. Officers believe that the man was unhappy about the marriage and, having travelled from his home town, rowed with the bride before she was killed. The captain and his family, five in all, jumped to temporary safety on the breakwater and were rescued by a ship chandler who rowed out in a small boat. Before I could change my mind, I started out, and, as the whitecaps of broadsiding waves sloshed in, rowed not so much with my muscles as with my bones. A dozen fellows rowed desperately to escape its fury. Initially, he rowed at Southsea Rowing Club, while stationed in Portsmouth with the Royal Navy and at Auriol Rowing Club in Hammersmith. This makes the million job pledge achievable, especially if Labour can give investors more stability than the outgoing coalition, which rowed over wind farms. You know, Dan, that's the man I rowed with all day, never did know I had a peg leg in that big boot, and that I wasn't really a flooder. De Gier had rowed out to where the yacht was anchored, fished up the anchor with a dragline, ascertained that the anchor cable had been cut. But he rowed on the starboard side, and as the stroke oarlock is generally on port, the seven man lives forever in humble frustration. Twice more in the 860s Vikings rowed to Paris, leaving only when they acquired sufficient loot or bribes from the Carolingian rulers. They rowed for safety, encountering the harbor formed by the current Duxbury and Plymouth barrier beaches and stumbling on land in the darkness. Four gondoliers dressed in black rowed the body to the island cemetery, Isola di San Michele, where he was buried near Diaghilev and Stravinsky. From 1952 to 1954, Hill rowed in twenty finals with London, usually as stroke of the crew, eight of which resulted in wins. But AbbVie issued a formal statement on Wednesday in which it rowed back on a boast which appeared to have been made in contravention of Takeover Panel regulations. Every vessel had several keelless whale-boats, pointed at both bow and stern, so that they could be rowed forwards or backwards. He was rowed back to Theseus to be attended to by the surgeon, Thomas Eshelby. The earliest craft were rowed across the lake, whilst later ferries were steam powered and, more recently, diesel powered. The heroine, who rowed to the stricken Forfarshire off the Farne Islands in 1838, is the inspiration for Darling Blue. The tests included a swimming test and a rowing test, although I am afraid that it was customary to tip the man holding the oars so that he rowed instead of the aspiring sailor. Show More Sentences Even the biggest fans of the smart couldn't refrain from talking about the Getrag automated manual transmission, which rowed through its six gears like a rocking chair. The Varsity four-oared race, over two miles, which was rowed immediately after the Freshman contest, was also captured by Harvard, by four lengths, in 13 min. Yale led during the first mile and a half by more than a length. Trolling involves the use of live bait or artificial lures that are drawn through the water behind a slow-moving boat, originally rowed but now generally motor-powered. Many writers have described the romance of Venice by gondola, and many tourists are still willing to pay high prices to be rowed at twilight through the canals to the singing of a gondolier. An earlier highspot of the sporting calendar is the spring boat race between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, rowed up the turbulent waters of the tideway from Putney to Mortlake. The term typically describes racing events of rowed or sailed water craft, although some powerboat race series are also called regattas. I told them, the sherriff could not be admitted on board this time of night, on which they set up a hallow and rowed as fast as they could towards the vessel's bows. The shore along which they rowed was, at first, wooded to the water line. It once weighed over three tonnes and was rowed by thirty men. It was fastened with cord, not nailed, and paddled, not rowed. The galley slaves were chained to benches and rowed throughout the day without a change of posture while an officer watched over them with a whip in hand. Helplessly, the English watched as the Vikings rowed past them. He became a hero the night the Titanic sank in 1912 when he rowed a lifeboat back to the schene of the sinking to save people from the freezing water. Sandro Carnemolla was breathalysed by police after he rowed with a Mersey river pilot on board to guide the ship, MV Quercianella, out of Eastham Docks. Examples from Classical Literature As a freshman he had coxed his College Eight, later he rowed Bow in that vessel. When I arrived at ILO, imagine my surprise to find that the man who rowed me ashore was the Italian who caused my arrest. Shawn had the jugs ready and together they rowed to the head of the channel. They rowed close into the shore, till they discovered a place where the rock-face was cleft, and showed a pale light within. He swam, rowed, walked, and could tire out any of his colleagues at swordplay or skittles. But she rowed back with the old brown dory almost as empty as when she had rowed it toilsomely out to her traps. They arranged it during the next few minutes, and then Jimmy was rowed off to the tyee. That the weather being calm, he rowed round me several times, observed my windows and wire-lattices that defenced them. Phil unshipped the rudder, and they rowed out into the middle of the stream. O'Grady at once lowered a boat and was rowed to the sea-horse, taking Terence with him. When the dogfish came the men pulled up their anchors and rowed a mile or so away, for where the dogfish pursues all others fly. Waving their hands again and again, each was rowed to his own bank of the Niemen. A little afterwards the boatswain's whistle sounded, the oars moved, and the galley was rowed out to her berthing station. He got up and slapped the oar back into the oarlock and we both rowed hard. It was raw and damp as we rowed into the estuary at sunrise in search of the seals. I took a rowing boat when I got there and I rowed about on the river for a bit. We rowed in till the boat touched ground and the breakers began to wash over us. Among University oars, watermanship is oftenest found in those who have rowed as schoolboys. We rowed to the ship and the line was carried aboard and tagged onto a winch. As he rowed on Windermere he pined for the light and colour of southern skies. Show More Sentences Every time one of her boats rowed past the xebec it would be challenged and ugly things said. The next morning Decatur had himself rowed over to the xebec, and went on board. So he went away, and they rowed him over to the Port, and he sailed to Penzance. She pulled up the anchor, but this time the policewoman did the rowing, and she rowed well. At Kuopio he rowed far out as was his usual habit, while the old women of the bath-house watched his performance from the shore. It was quite dark, when, running in with a free sheet, we came close to a large barge rowed by six men. He had not been with us during the day, having just rowed over from somewhere else. Then he, too, got into a boat and was rowed away across the calm water to the island. Halbert looked after him, enviously, as he rowed the boat out into the stream. The following morning early we rowed away again, full of longing, but not of hope, of reaching one or other of the guacharo caves. They rowed down to the shanty-boat and Burney built a big fire on the shore. Guess you never see no hens like them afore, chuckled the lobsterman as he rowed away. The latter did not lie much more than the first, for he had rowed on board his majesty's galleys six years, at Ciotat. The vessel moved gently from the shore, rowed by the mariners. Kalliope rowed easily and was well content to go on rowing all day. Hesitating no longer we clambered upon our rafts and rowed with all our might out to sea. He rowed out in a northerly wind, with snow falling, and a heavy sea. She waved her hand to them apathetically and rowed slowly on. We rowed, by my computation, about three leagues, till we were able to work no longer, being already spent with labour while we were in the ship. It was much harder work now, but Herbert and Startop persevered, and rowed, and rowed, and rowed, until the sun went down. Show More Sentences I rowed off, but all the way down to my boathouse I smiled contentedly. From hence we rowed down the stream, coasting the province of Parino. Many a time had she crooned it in the old days as I rowed her in the boat. I've rowed a dory a good many times when 'twas as bad as this. A fisherman's boy in a boat rowed slowly along by their side. We went into a gondola, and the guards rowed us towards Fusina. We then rowed in smoother water along the shore up to our camping-place. I followed him to a boat landing, slugged him, and rowed across the lake. But they, deaf alike to the song and the sorcery, rowed harder than ever. Six oarsmen took their seats, and the coxswain went to the tiller.The sailors rowed on, and the coxswain made for the floating barrel. The muggletonian rowed slowly, peering about him with small, keen eyes. The Hero of Barrosa rowed us all most terribly for unsteadiness. The crew had rowed us ashore with my boatmen Manuel and Augustine. Into this dark spot the Northman rowed his vessel and landed with his men. The boat was tossed fearfully by the waves as the oarsmen rowed it along. Mr. Waite and Mr. Haines, the taxidermist, were rowed ashore. He went to regattas, picnicked, and was rowed and punted about. Then we rowed to a third buoy belonging to us and began hauling. The other barges in the cortege were rowed by Greenwich pensioners. I never rowed in any of the eights, though I was urged to do so. Show More Sentences They had rowed steadily, rising from the thwarts at every stroke, up to the moment we passed them, when they recognized Charley and me. It would be just lovely to be rowed across the Styx together. Using a nearby boat he rowed to Lex, an Airedale Terrier, who was stranded on an island lake, but after getting her aboard, she panicked and jumped into the water. They rowed about a league, and then set me down on a strand. The seven-mile long procession will have Dunkirk little ships, historic vessels, steam boats and tugs, rowed shallops, Dutch barges and passenger ships. Every conceivable vessel will be afloat on the Thames from kayaks, skiffs, Dunkirk little ships and dragon boats to tugs, barges, rowed shallops and passenger vessels. They lined the rough-made boat down the mountain torrent, nearly losing it a dozen times, and rowed across the south end of Lake Linderman in the thick of a fall blizzard. I stepped silently in and sat down, and the metal man pushed off, and rowed without stopping for nine days, after which land appeared on the horizon. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of rowed? Words that rhyme with rowed What is the adjective for rowed? What is the noun for rowed? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Rowe rowdyism rowdyish rowdy rowdiness rowdily rowel roweled Rowell rowels rowen rower 5-letter Words Starting With r ro row rowe