Sentences with phrase «long oars»

This creature gained its name from the two delicate fins that extend down from beneath its head, which resemble long oars.

You stand up on a board shaped like a large surfboard and paddle with a long oar.

Not exact matches

1932 Against a bristling backdrop of oil derricks at Long Beach, Calif., Germany (left) defeated Italy in four - oared shells with cox for gold medal Meanwhile, in the Los Angeles Coliseum, Mildred (Babe) Didrikson (right), then just 18, won 80 - meter hurdles and javelin throw, finished second in the high jump.

For many of us, the effort has been nearly all - consuming, as we pulled on the oars together to bring about this long - sought conservation outcome.

«The truth of the matter is that I can no longer endure these blackmails from my traducers, as I have seen that they are not resting in their oars, as they have vowed to implicate me by all means necessary.

«Tetrapodophis doesn't show any aquatic adaptations — no long, oar - like tail, no thick bones to act as ballast, no flippers,» says Nick Longrich of the University of Bath, UK, who is a co-author of the study.

Minihan and cinematographer David Schuurman work in some nifty camera tricks to help mirror Jules» paranoia and disorientation (one particular instance in which the camera is strapped to an oar is particularly effective), as well as long takes tracking Jules» movement around the isolated cabin.

Our austere boat captain pushed us off the pier with his long wooden oar, and began to lead us along the steep cliffs that make up the gorge, a view that evokes the landscape images we are familiar with from traditional Asian artwork.

It gets broader because the variability in the change of average temperature grows, but this variability can equally well be good oar bad as long as it has not been analyzed whether the warming is stronger at locations where it's beneficial or where it's harmful.