Sentence examples for of a paddle from inspiring English sources

Whatever combination is used, each of the two sides of a paddle must be different in colour.

His party trick is to beat anyone in the room using a battered cell phone in lieu of a paddle.

It's really more of a paddle with a small dial at the top and an L.E.D. screen that currently reads 50 -- zero means "tune out" and 100 "riveting".

Seeing the world from sea level, at the speed of a paddle stroke, brings small things into focus, and reinjects wonder into a harried life.

When Mr. Fathman started his crusade in 1984, after his own daughter landed on the painful end of a paddle, five states had adopted bans.

The tersely named, semisubterranean Bid provides customers at Sotheby's two things they need desperately, real food and prices that cannot be changed with the wave of a paddle.

A photograph from the late 19th century depicts "City of Hudson," a paddle steamer of the kind that replaced sailing vessels.

In the shipbuilding category, there is a strong message in a depiction of a paddle-wheel steamer speedily passing conventional sailing vessels.

He paddles a canoe in Minnesota, walks the deck of a paddle-wheel steamboat near Memphis and whizzes through Louisiana wetlands in an airboat.

Turner visited it in 1831, later working up this soulful painting of a paddle-steamer plowing surf off Fingal's Cave, a dramatic rock crevice along the coastline discovered by Sir Joseph Banks in 1772.

For the uninitiated (those who don't share my Greek bona fides, for example, as winner of a paddle-decoration award in my college sorority) the Dekes never resembled the dubious Deltas in "Animal House" with toga-draped John Belushi-types crushing empty cans of Bud on their foreheads.