paddle

Example Sentences

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But ego isn’t just Chalamet’s engine, it’s also his muse, whether he’s swinging a paddle, riding a sandworm or strumming a guitar as Bob Dylan.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

Instead they had intended to have a paddle, and were still dressed when they both somehow ended up in the pool, she said.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

Her husband, Joseph Hougebe, remembers whistling into the night, eagerly waiting to hear a paddle tapping against the hull of a dugout canoe -- coded signals in the darkness.

From Barron's • Feb. 12, 2026

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 • Jan. 28, 2026

Her face is scrunched up with the effort of trying to move her paddle as fast as she can, but she looks like a flailing baby bird struggling to make her wings cooperate.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam