Sentence examples for off the paddle from inspiring English sources

The cheese slides off the paddle in a long, slow, sticky blob, with solid patches like knuckles on a hand oozing out, turning the water milky white.

A celluloid ball and rubber paddles became popular in the early 20th century, and a British sporting goods manufacturer coined the name Ping-Pong for the sound the ball makes off the paddle.

Every second stage is a Scrolling Block Screen, featuring bricks that move from left to right; every third is an Advancing Block Screen, where the bricks move downward the height of one regular brick in short bursts, increasing in speed as the ball bounces off the paddle.

Photograph: Julie Jacobson/AP 7.14pm BST Water drips off the paddle of Britain's Lizzie Neave during a training session for the women's K-1 kayak slalom.

During the fourth crossing of Brunel's immense Great Eastern, in 1861, the seas were so high that, according to one report, they not only tore off the paddles but knocked over the deck-mounted cowshed, sending one of the animals through the skylight of the saloon, where it landed on an understandably surprised barfly.

Good players knew that the hardest shot was the one you hit off the tip of the paddle — that gave you the maximum angle.

Continue flicking your wrist to bounce the ball off the top of the paddle.

The therapist turned off the vibrating paddles.

It is not helped by batsmen who can move deep into the crease, or step out, or go legside or off, play the ramp, the paddle and any other exotica that they have in the armoury.

He stayed motionless for several moments, until pushing off the dock and paddling away.

So most evenings, in defiance of club rules, Robert still pulls his kayak off the rack and paddles downriver to play the wave beneath the viaduct on his own.