How to use "oars" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "oars" in popular movie and book plots

  • Annoyed by this, Napoleon oars himself out of sight.  - Krazy's Waterloo
  • Inspired by Saint Columcille and his journey to the island of Iona, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or sail.  - 48 Angels
  • Ferdinand manages to "motorize" the barn by modifying an old tractor engine to oars at the side of the building.  - Raining Cats and Frogs
  • Conan and Juma are then sentenced to a life of slavery at the oars aboard a ship as punishment.  - The City of Skulls (short story)
  • During the night, the Professor managed to escape the ship with a lifeboat, but it is a trap to Olrik, who pulled out the oars and the food.  - The Curse of the Thirty Denarii
  • Unable to find Anne and Dick, they leave the island, taking the oars from the children's boat so they can't escape.  - Five on a Treasure Island
  • Bugs finds himself rowing the ship's oars with an iron ball chained to his foot.  - Mutiny on the Bunny
  • " Laughing, he once again mans the oars to disappear on a vast plastic ocean.  - And the Ship Sails On
  • While in the boat with her son, Emmeline fails to notice that Hannah has tossed one of the oars into the sea.  - The Blue Lagoon (novel)
  • Emmeline and Paddy return to the boat and slowly drift away, until Paddy tosses one of the oars out.  - The Blue Lagoon (1980 film)
  • For six months Oliver toils at the oars of a Spanish galley.  - The Sea Hawk
  • He abandons the horse and gets into the boat, discovering that it has no oars or sail.  - Napoléon (1927 film)
  • He has come for silver from the state treasury to buy oars for the fleet and he instructs his Scythians to begin levering open the gate.  - Lysistrata

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