Sentence examples for old paddle from inspiring English sources

In July 1880, during maneuvers with the fleet, Zieten torpedoed and sank the old paddle steamer.

The sudden increase in demand encouraged a range of vessels to be pressed into service including old paddle wheelers, fishing boats, barges and coal ships still full of coal dust — all were overloaded and many sank.

Surfers in the lineup rushed to the 52-year-old paddle boarder and carried him back to shore.

The Inwood Canoe Club is Manhattan's oldest paddling collective.

By Ben McGrath The Inwood Canoe Club is Manhattan's oldest paddling collective.

Nantahala Outdoor Center One of the oldest paddling schools (www.noc.com; 800-232-7238), in is in Bryson City, N.C., and offers rafting as well as several varieties of instruction.

It's what I had always used, too, and I stuck with it because that's the way I am; I still have my forty-year-old paddles, even though the rubber on them is now so hard that they're unusable.

The racquet Marty had promised me still wasn't ready, so he let me use one of his — an old, classic paddle made by Bernard Hock.

And so, he said: "I don't have any idea what emotions, if any, my old canoe paddle on display in there will arouse in others, but what it chiefly arouses in me, aside from a few recollections, is disgust that I let a useful tool lie out for three or four years among willows beside a stock pond, where it was rotted by weather and fractured by the hooves of Black Angus cows.

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

Table Tennis Nation promotes a version of the old-fashioned paddle, one covered with sandpaper rather than rubber.