Oar is an English word of 3 letters with synonyms like implement. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Oar in a sentence
Related words
Oar meaning
- A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat.
- An oarsman; a rower.
- An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
Synonyms of Oar
Using Oar
- The main meaning on this page is: A type of lever used to propel a boat, having a flat blade at one end and a handle at the other, and pivoted in a rowlock atop the gunwale, whereby a rower seated in the boat and pulling the handle can pass the blade through the water by repeated strokes against the water's resistance, thus moving the boat. | An oarsman; a rower. | An oar-like swimming organ of various invertebrates.
- Useful related words include: implement.
- In the example corpus, oar often appears in combinations such as: the oar, an oar, oar in.
Context around Oar
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 10 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Oar
- In this selection, "oar" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sweep, sculling, high, rowing, blade and gearing stand out and add context to how "oar" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a cardboard oar with the and a high oar gearing which. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "oar" sits close to words such as aas, abaco and abramovich, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with oar
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Which he heroically beat back with an oar. (8 words)
Oceans Calling attendees had a blast on the beach listening to OAR. (12 words)
But why Japan is keen to put its oar in Kazutoshi may have the answer. (15 words)
For a ship to travel at high speeds would require a high oar-gearing, which is the ratio between the outboard length of an oar and the inboard length; it is this arrangement of the oars which is unique and highly effective for the trireme. (45 words)
A Peloton spokesperson said, “After only four weeks, Row users saw an average of 10% improvement in their form rating,” particularly in their “drive,” the part of the stroke when you push with your legs and pull on the oar stand-in. (42 words)
Agility and balance were built and tested by running and jumping for sport, and there is mention of a sport that involved jumping from oar to oar on the outside of a ship's railing as it was being rowed. (40 words)
Is he the partner of the female passenger and her baby, or is he a boatman-for-hire trapping them behind the sweeping diagonal of his wooden oar? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Agility and balance were built and tested by running and jumping for sport, and there is mention of a sport that involved jumping from oar to oar on the outside of a ship's railing as it was being rowed.
An oar is often referred to as a blade in the case of sweep oar rowing and as a scull in the case of sculling.
A sculling oar is shorter and has a smaller blade area than the equivalent sweep oar.
For a ship to travel at high speeds would require a high oar-gearing, which is the ratio between the outboard length of an oar and the inboard length; it is this arrangement of the oars which is unique and highly effective for the trireme.
In extraction, the rower pushes down on the oar handle to quickly lift the blade from the water and rapidly rotates the oar so that the blade is parallel to the water.
The catch, which is placement of the oar blade in the water, and the extraction, also known as the finish or release, when the rower removes the oar blade from the water.
The oar in the sculler's right hand extends to port, and the oar in the left hand extends to starboard.
There are two forms of rowing: * In sweep or sweep-oar rowing, each rower has one oar, held with both hands.
Andrews explains that the training he received in his unit was pivotal carrying out his duties successfully during OAR.
A Peloton spokesperson said, “After only four weeks, Row users saw an average of 10% improvement in their form rating,” particularly in their “drive,” the part of the stroke when you push with your legs and pull on the oar stand-in.
But why Japan is keen to put its oar in Kazutoshi may have the answer.
Green Party TD Brian Leddin has already thrown his oar in, that much we know.
Florida and Georgia battle for the “Okefenokee Oar” with Fresno State and Hawaii rumbling for the “Golden Screwdriver”.
Is he the partner of the female passenger and her baby, or is he a boatman-for-hire trapping them behind the sweeping diagonal of his wooden oar?
Oceans Calling attendees had a blast on the beach listening to OAR.
I have to hang up the oar and I am coming to terms with understanding why.
Pretty soon you couldn’t throw an oar without running into an indoor rowing class.
Through tears of sadness and joy, I closed the door and stayed, but I questioned if I was really the oar or the anchor.
Which he heroically beat back with an oar.
His stall in the visitors’ locker room featured not only his Coyotes nameplate, but a cardboard oar with the Gophers logo and the football team’s “Row the Boat” slogan.
Common combinations with oar
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the oar 18×
- an oar 8×
- oar in 4×
- oar to 3×
- sweep oar 3×
- oar and 3×
- to oar 2×
- oar is 2×
- oar handle 2×
- oar so 2×