Sentence examples for like paddling from inspiring English sources

Paddling Mark's board felt like paddling a miniature oil tanker.

The journey is a bit like paddling back in time through a part of American history – most of Florida used to look like this before the invention of bulldozers and backhoes enabled the destruction of swampland on an epic scale.

"I was hyperventilating, and I was like paddling into the eddy and saying, 'I gotta get out of this kayak.' " He cannot prepare for situations quite like that at the white-water center.

It can be seen in their laws (like capital punishment and a stand-your-ground right to self-defense), in their customs (like paddling children in schools and volunteering for military service), even in their physiological reactions to trivial insults.

When Clover came home she was too tired to fight and she accepted the meat loaf and the wine I'd picked out as the peace offerings they were and after the baby was asleep we listened to music, smoked a joint, and made love in a slow deep plunge that was like paddling out on a wave of flesh for what seemed like hours.

In one essay he describes the feeling of cross-country skiing as being like paddling a canoe across a lake: "Once you begin to get the motion right, the kicking and gliding and riding the driving ski with your body weight floating over it, you may find that you have swallowed your boat whole, that you are your boat moving across a lake of still air and snow".

As much as I liked paddling along southern Peru, the word on the shore was that any surf safari must also include a visit to Máncora, a small fishing village in northern Peru near Ecuador.

He just likes paddling around on a hot afternoon.

And his son, Jake, now 18 months old, likes paddling in the placid waters of Southold Bay.

"Hey, Kaz," said Mr. Green as he handed Mr. Yokoyama a tiny, doll-like paddle, house-rules handicap for players above a certain level.

The primary tool for this transport is a face mask studded with small sensors and featuring two racquet-like paddles for interacting with your world.