How To Use Paddle In A Sentence

We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.
The four of us stayed for a couple of nights in the Rest House at Takoradi, which gave us a few hours to walk the beaches and paddle in the ocean, and to luxuriate in the fresh sea breezes after the heavy atmosphere of the interior.
I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
The paddles turned out to be harmless slapsticks, with holes through the actual paddle part so they could cause a loud slapping noise without hurting.
Ship the pole, duck and use the paddle if you lose momentum. Times, Sunday Times

With a quick catch and lift, he passed Michael up and into unseen hands outstretched from the iron wall of the ship, and paddled ahead to an open cargo port. CHAPTER 2
As the two little craft pulled through the Gap, Guardian received a salute of raised paddles from the canoe, the tender lifting its oars on the gunwales for one stroke before resuming its rhythm.
I used to go swimming, play paddleball and all kinds of little games at the gym, but no more.
These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle, 'the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball, which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 1
Restoration of the paddle steamer will involve stripping the entire front third of the vessel before repairing the hull and refurbishing the engines.
Not only was Sheryl one of the fastest women beach sprinters ever to scorch the nation's sands, she was also a title-winning paddler on the Malibu board and surf ski.
The butter churn have two paddle to whip the cream.
Guided by instinct, he paddled with his forepaws.
Or pay homage to your nursery school teacher and attach a ghost made of construction paper and a ping-pong paddle to your woodsy cable-knit sweater.
That was before the Ghezouba Dam was built on the Yangtze River in the early 1980s, cutting off the sturgeon's migratory path, just as it did for the critically endangered Chinese paddlefish .
I watch rice being planted, traditional canoes paddled in peacoloured swamps and monks in saffron robes walking along red dirt roads.
Who wants a rubber duck when you can play with a miniature ocean liner or toy paddle steamer? Times, Sunday Times
Do not the young men contrive great wealth what of their pack-straps and paddles? CHAPTER 2
now I'm really fantastic at drawing this mechanical device, but you can imagine that dropping a weight can cause a paddle wheel to turn.
Meantime the bear has learned to paddle around all by itself on its hind legs, and says "poppa" and "momma. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
For the coconut and sesame seed crisps: In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle, combine butter and sugar and beat until fluffy.
Paddlers of all ages and abilities are now getting into the last stages of training for the gruelling 125-mile marathon that is the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race.
Trapped, they chose to paddle three miles down the coast to Waimea, where they hoped the deep-water bay would provide a navigable channel.
He's a champion sailboarder and a determined long distance paddler.
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Ship the pole, duck and use the paddle if you lose momentum. Times, Sunday Times
The ferry stopped, launched a boat and picked them up - they had paddled 14 miles across the Channel - at 7am.
In May they will paddle away from the coast of Japan at the start of a 5,000-mile row across the Pacific to America.
Paddle is largely a doubles game, marked by rapid volleying at the net.
It was so big that Newman had to use a canoe paddle from his river boat to stir it.
They took inspiration from mechanical models such as propellers and paddle wheels.
At one time, over 300 paddlewheel steamboats plied the Delta.
I desperately tried to paddle away but the canoe move and I was wedged in.
I caught one last wave and then paddled in to shore by a river mouth. The Sun
It eyes me warily as I paddle past, heart in mouth. The Sun
These were tiny wooden paddles with a little bubble of glass. Times, Sunday Times
If you want a faster front crawl, hold your fingers apart like a rake, not together like a paddle. Times, Sunday Times
Debates range from tow-in versus paddle in and thruster versus single fin all the way down to which local spot hosts the worthiest crew.
Tasting Kentucky paddlefish roe that could pass for sevruga caviar. Like a Sturgeon
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the flour, graham cracker crumbs, and butter and mix until just combined, about two minutes.
Within the Chondrostei, only sturgeons, bichirs and paddlefishes survive today, and many are threatened.
Coupled to all this is the Koenigsegg-engineered transversal, paddle-shift transmission with limited slip differential. Exclusive: Koenigsegg Agera - GTSPIRIT.COM
They can paddle faster but not for any great distance because it takes too much energy. Times, Sunday Times
Even though a prickly pear may be visibly spineless, the glochids on paddles and fruits remain just as nasty.
She then went for a paddle in a canoe with a pal. The Sun
Using oars as paddles, they moved the motorboat close to the shore. THREE IN ONE
In one scene, for instance, the woman and her dog are following behind a large ocean liner in their paddleboat.
I ignored the paddles on the wheel that allow you to change gears. Times, Sunday Times
The Seastag moved slowly northward, then hove to off the southern breakwater, waiting, the paddle wheels turning just enough to keep the ship with bare steerageway. Wellspring of Chaos
Women in wet saris and men with lungis hoisted between their legs paddled in the spume to do puja, or worship. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
We might be able to push ourselves across with the paddle.
We introduce reverberation chamber and it's features in size, shielding material and paddles.
Contemporaries of the last dinosaurs, paddle-limbed mosasaurs, inhabited seas of the Cretaceous period, which ended about 66 million years ago.
I ignored the paddles on the wheel that allow you to change gears. Times, Sunday Times
Over the two days of competition, Navy teams battled it out in the 20 man and 12 man events with crews containing paddlers, a sweep and drummer.
Some of the most frequent gross morphological adaptations to an aquatic lifestyle include the modifications of limbs into paddles and the elongation and lateral flattening of the tail.
I desperately tried to paddle for the shore.
By now your paddling mates are a speck in the distance, the rhythmic flash of the sun on their paddle blades a galling reminder of the way this sport should be played.
Unless some other canoe is in sight, one paddles along with a sense of solitude amid the mountains and the woods.
At that moment a duck paddled near, and overhearing this, she laughed.
The sense of calm and silence, the great waste of sea, the monotonous 'plash' of the paddle-wheels, the sort of solitude in the midst of such a crowd, the gradually lengthening distance behind, with the lessening, as gradual, in front, and the always novel feeling of approach to a new country -- these elements impart a sort of dreamy, poetical feeling to the scene. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
The goal: to paddle back to the pousada in time to savor every last second of an hourlong massage.
My arms would only oer doggy paddle. Times, Sunday Times
Broker figured fourteen to sixteen hours of nonstop paddle and portage to the lodge. ABSOLUTE ZERO
A paddle, a sweep, or an oar, is called washee, and washee is also the verb. Chapter 16
He looked like a holiday-maker about to paddle in the sea. Times, Sunday Times
The boat-songs were to give time to the paddlers in canoes, and were sung by directors or fuglemen of whom there were two in each large war-canoe, one near the bow and the other near the stern.
Characters can be anything from paddles in pong, to fully rendered super heroes, to undulating soundscapes we poke at with sticks. The Authorship Conflict
He swept his paddle over the water, indicating the whole lot.
We paddled a little boat in the West Lake.
I sat under a lemon tree with two of my oldest and dearest friends while the kids paddled in the wading pool and drove plastic cars around the yard.
The current classic paddle strokes are fine in certain circumstance but there are other occasions when different techniques are needed.
This helicopter is one kind of single belt stroke-oar single shot stands rises machine, uses 2 piece of paddle blades, the tubular runner type landing gear design.
We might be able to push ourselves across with the paddle.
Each team comprises 18 paddlers, one drummer, one steersman (also called a sweep) and one flag-catcher.
A proper mixing paddle mixes in the corners of a bucket and doesn't blend air into the mixture.
The auto has a paddle-shifter on each side of the steering wheel - right for up, left for down - and uncannily the system has a device called downshift rev matching, causing one passenger to remark: "I thought this was an automatic. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
They might want amusement, ranging from something as simple as a paddleboat to sophisticated theme bars and beach dance floors.
Also known as a “split paddle,” a tawse is a wide leather strap split into strips at the end light to intense. Come Hither
Throughout the evening and most of the next morning, we portage an unrunnable section of the river, then load up and paddle on in a cold, steady rain.
In this race everybody goes in pairs and each pair had to get a board and paddle out to a buoy about 10 meters out and back.
Along the harbor in Beaufort, North Carolina, this electioneer also paddled ‘a small row boat from vessel to vessel’ to collect the votes, though it was ‘very rough and difficult - if not dangerous - to get about as I have to do.’
Boil till he ticken (thicken) Cedar paddles stir with. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
Bethany not only made the final, but surfed well, managing to pick off set waves and paddle for position.
For if the boat be left to its own course, both it and the cork will float down together; and if the use of the oars or paddles be resumed, the distance between the boat and the cork will proceed to develope itself exactly according to the rate of the _boat_, without any regard to that of the _stream_. A Project for Flying In Earnest at Last!
A better analogy is to equate the new swimsuits with flippers and hand paddles, equipment devices that enhance performance.
The clothes were deposited in the tub with soap flakes and soda, then swirled around by hand, using a wooden paddle, a long and hot process.
The final wreck in our trilogy of paddle steamers has only recently been discovered.
Snug in this waterborne nest, he paddled away from the cruel mirth of the swimmers, intent upon solitude. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
In 1957, the "Little Showboat" made its debut and took passengers on a leisurely "paddle" around the lake.
They attempt to paddle the boat back to shore but they are too weak to use the oar with any effectiveness. Times, Sunday Times
Over the last two nights, we've seen Fox contributor Eric Byrnes and ESPN's Kenny Mayne paddle around McCovey Cove in kayaks in search of home run balls at Major League Baseball's Home Run Derby and 78th All-Star Game from San Francisco. Networks take bold steps to offer all-access viewing
The river steamboats are designed in 19th century format with stylish furnishings - an impressive mirrored and brass staircase and a lounge with a two-storied glass rear wall for a glimpse of the giant paddlewheel.
The visibility of the water would have been clouded at the time of the incident had there been any swimmers, paddlers or waders in this area.
Coming slowly on through the forests of masts was a great steamship, beating the water in short impatient strokes with her heavy paddles as though she wanted room to breathe, and advancing in her huge bulk like a sea monster among the minnows of the Thames. The Old Curiosity Shop
Chris's café has sponsored its own canoe and some of her staff are planning to take it in turns to paddle the 100 km from Lismore to Ballina.
They paddled inshore in a coracle of skins which, for the most part, lay upturned on the deck like the hollow carcass of some giant turtle.
The video was looped, so that every few minutes the shadows passed by again and the ducks paddled across the canvas.
We might be able to push ourselves across with the paddle.
The coast is enshrouded with fog - out of the fog there is this lobster boat, and we paddled up to it.
I caught one last wave and then paddled in to shore by a river mouth. The Sun
The best moment, and most shameless use of the medium ever, consists of a barker drumming up business for the wax museum by whapping a paddleball RIGHT INTO THE CAMERA!
It's worth the hike - the scenery is fantastic and your final destination has a pretty beach to escape from your shoes and paddle.
Paddle power-ups are just as varied: for example, one basic improvement increases the width of the paddle, another spawns a second AI-powered paddle, and others will mount a cannon or ultrapowerful laser that can cut through an entire column of bricks. GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features
The river is relatively wide here and it is a pleasant spot for lunch and a paddle.
I let the canoe drift with the current, trailing my paddle in the mocha-colored water.
Then there's paddle-boarding, volleyball or the back-fit class that worked wonders on my desk-bound body. The Sun
I paddled the rest of the way in to the beach, arriving just as the latecomers were hopping over the rocks that lined the shore.
The obvious answer, from the moment he joylessly unsheathes his defibrillation paddles, is no. Times, Sunday Times
We paddled the canoe along the coast.
He tried to teach me to do the easy stuff first, like what he called the doggy paddle. The Coldest Winter Ever
After all, he often seems to be up a creek without a paddle. Times, Sunday Times
Swept along, we paddled furiously to miss the many boulders that appeared in front of us.
Now another denizen, the Chinese paddlefish, Psephurus gladius — which measures up to 20 feet long and decades ago was commonly seen leaping above the waters — appears to be on the verge of extinction, if not already gone forever. A Paddlefish Warning, from China
With a blast of froth, Herbie emerges from the icy deep and drives happily on the surface of the water, like a racing-striped dog-paddler.
They attempt to paddle the boat back to shore but they are too weak to use the oar with any effectiveness. Times, Sunday Times
Kitted out with helmets, wetsuits, buoyancy aids and paddles, our team piles into two inflatable rafts, drifting gently downriver.
Holding the paddles, Donna looks over at the heart monitor.
Launch at Hana Bay for a short paddle around tranquil waters and surrounding coves.
I paddle about, listening to the faint plop plop of the burbling springs.
In one design, two or more horses walked in a circle on deck, turning a capstan amidships that was geared to a paddle wheel set between a pair of catamaran-like hulls.
Only we two mugs in the front got thrown out, still clutching our paddles.
When he holds up his huge hand to indicate the direction, it is like the blade of a paddle.
Hubei province, Honghu city: A fisherman tries to paddle his boat through a small stream amid the partially dried-up fishery in the Honghu lake, Hubei province.
Most people only paddle in the water there, which is perfectly safe.
Although the paddle wheels were beginning to pick up a slow and even rhythm, even Kharl could tell that the ship was losing headway and might soon even lose steerageway. Wellspring of Chaos
A kayak - pointed at both ends - could be a palindrome of a vessel, in both shape and word, except that you can't paddle it backwards as happily as you can spell it so.
Other wood boards sold for in excess of $10,000 a piece, including a 1950s balsa paddleboard and a redwood plank from the 1930s.
Inside a stunning 30-inch-diameter glass globe, shrimp paddle between fronds of algae.
After dinner and some fly casting tuition from Barry, Dan and I take a canoe out for a paddle on the wetland.
For one thing, our stateroom was a nice lively one, alongside of the paddle box and just under the fog whistle; and for another, the supper that Jonadab had brought, bein 'mainly doughnuts and cheese, wa'n't the best cargo to take to bed with you. The Depot Master
I remember those little dial controllers and how you could make the “ball” move differently by blipping the paddle * just* as the “ball” hit it … my brother and I could play against each other for hours! Pong love « Lab Kat
Coracles are paddled, or more correctly sculled, not to the stern but rather toward the bow using a figure-eight stroke.
I hardly noticed the chill in the air through my jacket and layers of fleece as a light rain began to fall, and the liquid movement of my paddle made me feel completely at one with the water.
The American Duchess is the most genteel paddle steamer to launch on the mighty river. Times, Sunday Times
Great Lakes started off with a floating awards banquet, as guests boarded a paddlewheel steamer for dinner and a cruise on the Illinois River.
I thought he was going to hold his paddle upside down for a minute and still win. The Sun
The dropping weights, connected to the paddlewheel by the cord through pulleys, caused the paddles to churn the water - like an old-fashioned ice cream maker stirring its custard.
It has steering wheel paddles and an automatic mode. Times, Sunday Times
They never bury their dead at sea, but always on a particular island, to which the funeral cortege of rude outrigged boats moves to the music of the paddle's dip. [ Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
He slid this off the float, loaded into it sundry boxes and packages, and taking his seat astern, paddled inshore to where the rising tide was ruffled by the outsetting current of a river. The Hidden Places
Telli gave one last stroke on his paddle as they moved out of the shade of the trees into bright sunlight, then stopped, leaving the canoe gliding on through glassy calm water.
The current classic paddle strokes are fine in certain circumstance but there are other occasions when different techniques are needed.
Kitted out with helmets, wetsuits, buoyancy aids and paddles, our team piles into two inflatable rafts, drifting gently downriver.
Mong-ju divined as my brains, was executed by the paddle -- in short, was promptly and expeditiously beaten to death to the delighted shouts of the Keijo populace. Chapter 15
A canvas-top version of the GranTurismo S, the GranTurismo convertible has the same Ferrari-fettled 4. 7-liter, 433-horsepower V8 and six-speed ZF transmission with paddle shifters. A Shapely Visitor From Planet Maserati
Some time later that morning the train deposited us at the quayside at Kisumu, right next to the paddle steamer which was to take us on our three day cruise down the lake.
Next morning they paddled off in kayaks, hugging the coast along a sheer rock face. Times, Sunday Times
Calvert is not a particularly strong paddler and seems shaky when lugging a kayak over kelp-slick rocks. Business and financial news - CNNMoney.com
We go rafting, which is fun and exciting, although the experience is slightly marred by our obnoxious German guide, who kept pulling bullshit like getting us to paddle our raft in a circle, or steering us backwards under waterfalls. Vignettes from Reid’s Visit
I'm going to take my cozzie up to the Hebrides when I go on holiday later this week, but the weather's supposed to be turning, so I'm not confident that I'll be able to go for more than an extended paddle.
An eight-paddle blower dispenses the material through a 300° swivel chute that can also place fodder along a feed barrier by directing on to the sloping 'toboggan' slide. FWi - All News
The pool is a great place for a swim, paddle or just to sit beside and enjoy the ripple of the water.
Asiajuk and his wife and three of the hunters stayed with the umiak at the mouth of the river, but Crozier and Silence with their children, the still-curious hunter Inupijuk, and the other hunters paddled their qayaqs upriver the three miles or so to the first low falls. The Terror
Delighted, Jim produced a photograph of himself as a forestry officer, 90 years later, crossing those same rivers in a dugout canoe paddled by natives and clutching his rifle.
As a result of tests taken by the complainants The South Eastern health Board recommended that signs be erected warning people not to bathe, paddle or wash utensils in the river at the Cove.
Burns told Thomson and Mrs. Dunlop that this noble and most moving song was old; but nobody believed him then, and nobody believes him now. pint-stoup = _pint-mug_ braes = _hill-sides_ gowans = _daisies_ paidl't = _paddled_ burn = _brook_ fiere = _friend_, _companion_ guid-willie = _well-meant_, _full of good-will_ waught = _draught_ Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys
We about-face and paddle back against the wind to Hoover Dam.
Like the rest of the Plesiosauroidea, elasmosaurs had a barrel-shaped body with four paddle-shaped flippers.
Pairs of fishermen paddled dug-out canoes along the lazy river. Times, Sunday Times
Sea turtles have paddle-shaped flippers that help them move through the water, one pair of lungs and a body temperature that fluctuates with the environment.
Out on the pier, we saw that kids had paddled out over a hundred yards on lilos and inflatable rafts.
Her mother paddled her for not keeping quiet.
We are both members of Edinburgh Kayak Club and have paddled many of the more challenging whitewater rivers in Scotland, such as the Orchy, the Etive, the Bran, and even the legendary Falls of Lora.
a few strokes, so as to give the boat what they called steerage way, that is, way through the water, so that holding the paddle in one position or the other would steer it. Marco Paul's Voyages and Travels; Vermont
In one design, two or more horses walked in a circle on deck, turning a capstan amidships that was geared to a paddle wheel set between a pair of catamaran-like hulls.
Yeah, problem was, there literally wasn't anybody to paddle out with, and I could see all the mullet, and the snook, tarpon and sharks feeding on them out there.
It's mirrored by an account told by white settlers of a paddle steamer captain who shot a bunyip.
Tourists paddle canoes and kayaks, swim and pursue elusive trout in these waters.
He had a small red ball, the kind that at one time had been attached to a wooden paddle by a rubber string.
It paddles along the surface for thirty seconds, then dives to trawl the muddy bottom for worms and aquatic insects.
This is important because, due to the paddle gear-change, it could be just too easy to change down all the gears, hit neutral, and then select reverse by mistake.
We rolled up our trousers and paddled along the seashore.
We might be able to push ourselves across with the paddle.
Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Thai villagers paddle a boat past a giant statue of the leaning Buddha as floodwaters inundate an ancient temple in Ayutthaya province, north of Bangkok, on Monday. Floodwaters Take Heavy Toll on Thailand
All sea snakes have flattened compressed paddle-like tails for propulsion in water.
We paddled on in tense silence, waiting for more gunfire or perhaps the twang of a banjo, but they were not interested in us.
The majestic wooden craft sliced easily through the water as she paddled.
The Pemon also make wooden dugout and bark canoes, paddles, and bows, and they weave hammocks and baby carriers.
Otherwise it's an undemanding walk or paddle between bays in one of the most beautiful and protected parts of New Zealand.
Southbank, SE1Paddle Round The Pier, Brighton & Hove, Saturday, SundayHuge, free fundraising beach and watersports festival, from surfing and kayaking to land paddling. This week's new events
Known in English as the "prickly pear" cactus, this member of the opuntia genus produces the vegetable called nopal, sometimes referred to as "cactus paddles" in the Southwestern United States, and the fruit called tuna. Cooking with Cactus: Nopales Cactus
We took off our shoes, paddled in the water, made sand castles, collected sticks and shells, and examined the dead jellyfish washed up on the shore.
Since sturgeons and paddlefish have lost many traits of most bony fish - they lack scales and have a cartilaginous skeleton - their fossil records are very sparse.
The boats are lowered away and so as not to frighten the whale the crewmen paddle instead of rowing.
If you get tired of the automatic, you can switch over to a motor-racing derived manual system operated by paddles located behind the steering wheel.
Hmas Wewak was greeted on entry by flotillas of dug-out canoes skilfully paddled by locals whose ages ranged from six to 60.
You can hike up a hill and paddle a kayak in the same day before refuelling on freshly caught seafood. The Sun
Hubei province, Honghu city: A fisherman tries to paddle his boat through a small stream amid the partially dried-up fishery in the Honghu lake, Hubei province.
Then rent a sea kayak, explore the hidden lagoons and bays around the island, and paddle alongside otters and dolphins. Times, Sunday Times
I think that he had never been entirely reconciled to the heathenish invention which I called a sail, and that down in the bottom of his heart he believed that the paddlers would eventually overhaul us; but now he couldn't praise it enough. Pellucidar
We rolled up our trousers and paddled along the seashore.
We walked up the curving beach below Malibu Creek and paddled out at the top of the point.
The first great change came about when their parents took them out for a day trip down the river in a paddle steamer. CHARMED LIFE
Since sturgeons and paddlefish have lost many traits of most bony fish - they lack scales and have a cartilaginous skeleton - their fossil records are very sparse.
Paddle your own canoe.
Joe had a paddle and Maggie dipped her feet into the children's paddling pool.
After checking another cage Greg pointed with his paddle to a dry waterline eight feet up one of the stumps.
We rolled up our trousers and paddled along the seashore.
Then you can hire a boat to burn off your cream tea or glass of local sparkling wine with a quick paddle. Times, Sunday Times

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