Sentence examples for paddles from inspiring English sources

On top of that, in 1977 the supreme court ruled that the eighth amendment protection against "cruel and unusual punishment" did not apply to schoolchildren, after hearing a case in which students were hit regularly with paddles for minor infractions, one "depriving him of the use of his arms for a week," and one student was hit so severely "that he suffered a hematoma requiring medical attention".

Canoes can also be hired to go between Carennac and Vayrac, Gluges and Creysse, Lacave and Souillac - all paddles of between three and six hours.

Small freezer unit enveloping a removable bucket and motorised paddles.

Cleveland's Gordon Square Arts District has essentially applied economic shock paddles to an entire area.

In gauzy greys and blues a lone longshoreman paddles solemnly, the Battersea shore a faint silhouette.

Paddles within them whirl around a mixture of nutrient broth and specially engineered hamster cells that are busy making human antibodies.It is, indeed, cell heaven in one of these reactors.

A family paddles by on their way back from one of the local churches; the three young daughters are dressed in identical white silk dresses.

Galley slaves pulled on oars; river-boat steam engines turned paddles; and nuclear reactors boiled water to drive turbines connected to propellers on aircraft carriers and submarines.

Men go out fishing in the Solimões river, a tributary of the Amazon, in canoes with diamond-shaped paddles or small outboard engines.

In this case Henry proved able to distinguish the wakes of paddles whose widths varied by 2.8cm or more.

Ichthyosaurs, indeed, looked somewhat like dolphins, though plesiosaurs with their long necks and diamond-shaped paddles were unlike anything now alive.Ichthyosaurs also resembled cetaceans in another way: unlike most living reptiles, which lay eggs, they gave birth to live young.