Sentence examples for paddling of from inspiring English sources

Polar Bears for Company That was the first open-water paddling of the trip, and a segue to the paddling leg, which amounted to some 650 miles of 1,500 total.

Down on the main river a paddling of ducks float outwards from the gloomy confluence to calm bright water.

When she heard of the Cahanins' complaints, Joy Ebarb, DeWayne's mother, began to question the repeated paddling of her son, who takes Ritalin for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

The paddling of a child to the point of being bruised and fearful of returning to school illustrates the lack of control that states have over their schools' disciplinary practices.

The teachers have 3-by-9-inch paddles, most made by students in wood shop; Mrs. Rials's, about six inches longer, was taken by the district attorney's office, which cleared her after an investigation into the paddling of Megan.

Perhaps, then, it's time to update the grisly collective noun (so unlike "an exaltation of larks" or a "paddling of ducks") that's been applied to these birds: not a "murder of crows" but a "litter".

We had an hour or more of paddling ahead of us before we'd even get to the river.

The hospital workers throw the paddles of a defibrillator on him.

The most widespread mechanism, however, is some means (e.g., a paddle) of physically pressing against the water.

And then there were beaver tails, hefty paddles of fried dough topped with cinnamon or chocolate or apples.

Every August, he spends two weeks in Maine paddling a kayak with a wooden paddle of an Eskimo design that is, he believes, a thousand years old.