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  • verb Present participle of oar.

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Examples

  • With the results of the TVA calamity, if you took a canoe trip along the Emory River in Tennessee, it would be like oaring through a vat of thick, toxic chocolate milk.

    Harmon Leon: Coal Ash: Let Your Voice Be Heard Harmon Leon 2010

  • I only hope he has the substance to make good on his victory, and truly believes his oaring rhetoric, for all of our sakes.

    Clinton and Obama meet, have 'productive discussion' 2008

  • I had the boat ready when they returned, and we poled off and were away in minutes, oaring hard.

    Father Swarat Matt Dennison 2010

  • We were oaring because our actual propeller on our life boat didn't work.

    CNN Transcript Dec 18, 2007 2007

  • We were oaring because our actual propeller on our life boat didn't work.

    CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2007 2007

  • Somewhere in the mountains ahead was stashed a deflated raft, a jumble of oaring frame pipe, and a can of stove fuel.

    How and Where to Hunt and Fish on Alaska's Dalton Highway 2004

  • I'm just going too much, got the boat turning and we oaring and stuff like that.

    Alive In Truth 2005

  • McNab, when she broke in and lurched about, dusting, sweeping, looked like a tropical fish oaring its way through sun-lanced waters.

    To the Lighthouse 2002

  • Hence the need for ten men to labor, pushing, pulling and oaring the longboat around, mindful of the fact that Donovan had said they had to finish filling the tuns that day.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Hence the need for ten men to labor, pushing, pulling and oaring the longboat around, mindful of the fact that Donovan had said they had to finish filling the tuns that day.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

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