SWIMMER in a Sentence

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For SWIMMER, below is one of 18 sentences:
Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.

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 Meanings and Examples of SWIMMER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
swimmer
 n.  a person who travels through the water by swimming
 n.  a trained athlete who participates in swimming meets
Classic Sentence:
1  My son," said the abbe, "you, who are a sailor and a swimmer, must know as well as I do that a man so loaded would sink before he had done fifty strokes.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
2  However, the vessel and the swimmer insensibly neared one another, and in one of its tacks the tartan bore down within a quarter of a mile of him.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
3  Every one on board remained motionless for half an hour, when the same luminous track was again observed, and the swimmer was soon on board.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
4  But the whale rushed round in a sudden maelstrom; seized the swimmer between his jaws; and rearing high up with him, plunged headlong again, and went down.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
5  Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
6  Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp clang of the bell.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
7  The main current ran rather swiftly, but not too strongly for even a moderate swimmer.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In V
8  There are, in revolutions, swimmers who go against the current; they are the old parties.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
9  Men who fall in there never re-appear; the best of swimmers are drowned there.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
10  It was believed that the search for the bodies had been a fruitless effort merely because the drowning must have occurred in mid-channel, since the boys, being good swimmers, would otherwise have escaped to shore.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  Scattered swimmers appear in the vast eddy, armour of men, timbers and Trojan treasure amid the water.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIRST
Example Sentence:
1  When he saw the land ahead, the swimmer redoubled his speed.
2  The swimmer was swept away by the current.
3  The swimmer dived into the river to save the drowning child.
4  The American, who won his fourth gold medal here in Athens Thursday in the 200-meter individual medley, is the favored swimmer tonight in the 100-meter butterfly.
5  The swimmer got cramp in his legs and had to be helped out of the water.
6  The swimmers said the dolphins were extremely agitated and repeatedly slapped the water with their tails, presumably to try to deter the predator as it cruised nearby.
7  How hard the swimmers work now will determine how they perform in the Olympics.