paddle

Example Sentences

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As Sobie spoke to the BBC, canoes - steered with paddles or long bamboo poles - moved through the narrow waterways, carrying mattresses and sacks of clothes belonging to the displaced people.

From BBC

And then, before we can see what’s tipped them off, they start paddling for shore.

From Literature

Checking up before a tight hairpin—braking late, downshifting with the paddle shifters, turning hard into hairpin corners, the weight of the wheel growing heavy, the little engine piping at full spool.

From The Wall Street Journal

The computer plays itself quietly, lighting up in measured, zigzagging rows until one or two players take up the controllers, which operate the game’s so-called paddles.

From The Wall Street Journal

She glances around, her eyes landing on a long plastic paddle leaning against the wall.

From Literature