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Example sentences for "sculler"

Lexicographically close words:
scuffles; scuffling; sculapius; scull; sculled; scullers; scullery; sculling; scullion; scullions
  1. A sculler will be least suspected, your honour," said one fellow.

  2. The boat swerved again, hit the skiff about midway between the stem and the rowlocks, and the next moment the sculler was in the water.

  3. Down she came, as straight as an arrow, into the tumult below, the sculler sitting upright, and holding his skulls steadily in the water.

  4. For a moment she seemed to be going under, but righted herself, and glided swiftly into the still water, while the sculler glanced round till he caught sight of our hero's half-drowned head.

  5. I am not allied to the sculler yet; he shall be Dauphin my boy.

  6. Now she is landed, and the sculler come back, By and by you shall see what Leander doth lack.

  7. When in that position a sculler is allowed to do that which an oarsman must not, viz.

  8. A junior sculler may be a senior oarsman, and vice vers[^a].

  9. No person shall be considered an amateur oarsman, sculler or coxswain-- 1.

  10. In scull-racing the advantage of the lead is greater than in rowing, as a sculler can help his own steering by watching the direction of the other's craft.

  11. In writing an article on sculling, a sculler must of necessity be egotistical.

  12. If the angle is much smaller, the feet and legs lose power when the sculler is full back, and the drive at the finish is weakened.

  13. The fastest sculler for half a mile I have ever seen was Herr Doering, who sculled for the Diamonds in 1887.

  14. In modern sculling-boats a man must use swivels, for the reach of the sculler extends to a point which he could not reach with fixed rowlocks, as his sculls would lock before he got there.

  15. Going thither in the highway, just by the Park gate, I met a boy in a sculler boat, carried by a dozen people at least, rowing as hard as he could drive, it seems upon some wager.

  16. There was also a rising sculler of the name of Blackman, who had won the Thames Regatta Sculls.

  17. It is only when the course has to be changed, or when the sculler has palpably gone out of his course, that the signals of the pilot come into play.

  18. In the first place the old code of rules were in force, which enabled a leading sculler to take his opponent's water, to wash him, to retain the captured course, and to compel his adversary to row round him in order to pass him.

  19. As the sculler becomes more used to his action, he will find his boat keep more even.

  20. When a sculler promotes himself to a light boat, he must be very careful not to lose the knack of even turns of wrists which he has been so assiduously studying in his tub.

  21. But let the sculler pluck up courage, and endeavour to imagine himself still afloat in his gig.

  22. It is good practice for any sculler to take his boat now and then in the wake of another sculler, and try to 'bump' him.

  23. A sculler who does not swing back further than when he is rowing, will do best to row his sculls home just as he would an oar.

  24. A sculler who is in good practice, and who is at home with his boat and sculls, should be able to feel his boat's course through each stroke, and to adjust her at any one stroke if she has deviated during the preceding one.

  25. At last, in 1874, a mediocre Tyne sculler named Bagnall was brought out to row him for the title, and Sadler won easily enough.

  26. A strong sculler shot by down the stream, his giant arms bare and the muscles visible as they rose, knotting and unknotting with the stroke.

  27. Tricksy outriggers, ready to upset on narrow keel, were held firmly for the sculler to step daintily into his place.

  28. Swiftly the sculler shot under the arch and in another moment drew up by the stairs.

  29. But the moon disappeared behind a bank of clouds and at that moment the sculler ran in shore.

  30. To turn a boat in the water the sculler must back water with one scull and pull with the other.

  31. The rower sits near the side of the boat, the sculler in the centre of the seat.

  32. To do this one scull is reversed, its rounded face being towards the rear as the sculler pushes it from him.

  33. This process is different from that of rowing in that the sculler has a scull for each hand, whereas the rower uses both hands for one oar.

  34. Down she came, as straight as an arrow, into the tumult below; the sculler sitting upright, and holding his sculls steadily in the water.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sculler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.