How to Use paddy in a Sentence

paddy

noun
  • In the morning, their leaves were floating in the paddy field.
    — Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 2024-09-12
  • In the rice paddies and fields around the area, people sheltered in place.
    — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 2017-06-09
  • The species can be found in paddy fields, forests, wetlands and gardens.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 2025-02-27
  • One sergeant was in the rice paddy, and a weapons specialist was knocked out in a cesspit.
    — CBS News, 2023-03-03
  • Its white-framed windows look onto lush green paddy fields and a path of tall green trees.
    — Safina Nabi, The Christian Science Monitor, 2021-09-13
  • Cao Thi Do, 80, points out a mass grave in a rice paddy.
    — Thomas Maresca, USA TODAY, 2018-03-15
  • Women in bright dresses took a walk in a rice paddy planted near the temple.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2022-07-12
  • A paddy wagon was outside and some of the drag queens were sitting inside.
    — Dean Eastmond, Teen Vogue, 2017-06-29
  • There were a lot of paddy fields, and not much construction, everyone rode around on their bikes.
    — Christine Whitney, The Cut, 2017-05-15
  • These are not the terraced rice paddies that rise like stairs for giants in postcards from Asia.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 2023-02-27
  • Not like Hawaii, but more like Thailand because of the rice paddies and corn fields.
    — Lauren Decarlo, Condé Nast Traveler, 2018-03-08
  • From the balcony, Phan points out at the surrounding rice paddies.
    — CNN, 2019-10-28
  • The survivors soon learned that taller, darker green patches of rice shoots in the paddies marked the spots where the dead had fallen.
    — Time, 2018-02-02
  • By then, paddy fields doubled as carp ponds; that seems to have been the case at the Asahi site in Japan, as well.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2019-09-17
  • Black and brown soldiers from places such as North Philly died in the rice paddies of Vietnam.
    — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 2017-09-12
  • In the past, if a stone wall along a rice paddy or road collapsed, the community would gather to repair it.
    — Hannah Kirshner, The Atlantic, 2023-12-06
  • During the height of the violence, a group of Muslim men arrived at the house and led them to the paddy fields.
    — Mujib Mashal, BostonGlobe.com, 2022-08-15
  • Was Hillary Clinton supposed to be giving a kick back paddy whack, give a dog a bone by somebody?
    — Fox News, 2018-05-13
  • The final days of the tour are spent on the magical island of Bali, noted for its terraced, bright green rice paddies.
    — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 2018-07-02
  • AP Rohingya children bathe in a paddy field near the Tombru refugee camp on Sept. 15.
    — TIME.com, 2017-09-19
  • Khin Aye, a farmer in the Ayeyarwady region, has 14 acres of paddy fields, which can be seen through the back window of his farmhouse.
    — The Economist, 2019-07-11
  • Want the SparkNotes version of the long-running sitcom about the Paddy’s Pub gang?
    — James Mercadante, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
  • As the youngest of five in a farming family living on the edge of vast rice paddies, Doan Thi Huong was raised for better things.
    — Ben Otto, WSJ, 2017-04-12
  • Gordon Elias, the kindly G.I. who gets riddled with machine gun fire in a rice paddy at the end of Platoon.
    — Ben Svetkey, The Hollywood Reporter, 2018-02-07
  • The Outside Podcast is hosted and produced by me, Paddy O'Connell.
    — Outside Online, 30 July 2025
  • At the wheel of the town paddy wagon was Adam Vaughn, a 34-year-old patrolman who joined the force after 12 years in the Marine Corps.
    — Steve Silberman, WIRED, 2002-10-01
  • Heads of State also features Stephen Root, Paddy Considine, Carla Gugino, Jack Quaid and Sarah Niles.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The Dakota Inn Rathskeller recently sold to Detroiter Paddy Lynch, who is keeping an annual anniversary tradition of special beer prices for a limited time.
    — Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The Paddy Chayefsky Estate continues to be represented by Frederick Bimbler at Moses Singer and WME.
    — Greg Evans, Deadline, 5 Aug. 2025
  • In 1984, Ecclestone and his associate, Paddy McNally, conceived the Paddock Club to further F1’s reputation as an exclusive and high-rolling sport.
    — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025

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