Sentence examples for paddle about from inspiring English sources

It has been argued that a chronic fever of distraction and fascination arrives on waves of Wi-Fi to stunt our attention spans, encouraging writers to paddle about, tweeting and liking, instead of striking out for deeper waters.

Perhaps two or three of the outliers paddle about, pecking below the surface or chasing one another.

Swarms (or is it schools?) of liberated pet turtles paddle about the pond under MORNINGSIDE PARK's several-stories-high waterfall, north of 110th Street in Morningside Heights.

Paddles come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but the general rule is a paddle about six inches taller than yourself if you're surfing and eight inches taller if you're distance paddling.

Keith Killion of the Ridgewood Police Department said that the older boys took the three freshmen to the woods just over the Hawthorne line into Ridgewood, blindfolded them and struck them on their bare buttocks with a wooden paddle about 30 times.

In 1907, she was awarded a prize from the Boston Herald for a story titled "An Early Morning Paddle", about a boy who watches a sunrise from a canoe.

The vital thing is that the soil shouldn't be very wet, Barter says, otherwise you'll be paddling about, ruining the soil structure by standing on it; it's also pretty unpleasant for you.

This enormous beast, it appears, paddled about like a duck.The discovery that S. aegyptiacus did its hunting in the sea solves the conundrum of competition with other predators like Bahariasaurus and Carcharodontosaurus, which seem more clearly adapted to pursuits such as pursuit on land.

The portrayal of women in surfing remains a sensitive issue, something that was brought to the fore in 2013, when Roxy ran an advert for a surf competition featuring lots of shots of champion surfer Stephanie Gilmore getting dressed and paddling about in her bikini without a single shot of her face, let alone her actually surfing.

Handled with Tuymans's characteristic short stabs and paddled-about marks, the painting, which isn't very big, is an accumulation of touches which creep up to and shrink away from a schematic pencil under-drawing.

Up the Ganges without a paddle sounds about right.