Sentence examples for paddy grass from inspiring English sources

Chinese liberal intellectuals generally came in two types: heavy and flushed with angry energy; or as thin and calm as paddy grass.

It had to do with motorbikes, which growl along Southeast Asian roads by the million and have become as emblematic of the region as terraced rice paddies and lemon grass.

It isn't as if the entire generation of Vietnam War veterans parades around now in faded Army fatigues, buttonholing everyone in sight and nattering on about those scary marches through the rice paddies and elephant grass.

Some were tethered in crop fields to feed on paddy stumps and dried grasses during winter season, immediately after the harvest.

If you'd spent your whole life looking at grass and distressed rice paddies and suddenly found yourself strapped into a giant metal tongue with some of those famous white devils you were brought up to loathe, you'd probably look like that guy, too.

The paddy fields have been replaced by lush grass and the agricultural ponds have transmuted into watering holes for the park's animal denizens.

Napakorn works at a steady pace in the paddies, using a hoe to clear dry grass and prepare the soil for planting.

High on a hillside the 70-year-old is bent double, cutting grass along the edge of his rice paddy with a scythe.

They also include two barnyard grasses Echinochloa crus-galis and E. colona well known as serious paddy field weeds.

Gradually you'll trade the bay for sawgrass prairie: seemingly never-ending stretches of waist- to head-high grass like the prairies out west, except here they grow out of a paddy that's dry only in certain areas and at certain times of the year.

In addition, the application of land uses included grass land, eucalyptus forest land, vegetable land, tea garden, sweet potato land, and paddy field reduced the erodibility of the soil compare to bare land.