How to Use paddy in a Sentence

paddy

noun

• Cao Thi Do, 80, points out a mass grave in a rice paddy.
  — Thomas Maresca, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2018
• In the rice paddies and fields around the area, people sheltered in place.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 9 June 2017
• Those who sheltered in the paddies crept back by night.
  — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• He was shot in the knee, foot, ankle and forehead in a rice paddy.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2023
• One sergeant was in the rice paddy, and a weapons specialist was knocked out in a cesspit.
  — CBS News, 3 Mar. 2023
• On the edge of the paddy, the team’s weapons specialist was knocked out by a mortar blast, and the medic was shot through the head.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2021
• 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, 17 Sep. 2019
• Not like Hawaii, but more like Thailand because of the rice paddies and corn fields.
  — Lauren Decarlo, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2018
• Black and brown soldiers from places such as North Philly died in the rice paddies of Vietnam.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 12 Sep. 2017
• The paddy fields need to be flooded with water for the plants to grow, but supplies are scarce.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• 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, 15 Aug. 2022
• There are clusters of gravestones, an odd one plonked in the middle of a paddy.
  — Michelle Jana Chan, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Feb. 2023
• AP Rohingya children bathe in a paddy field near the Tombru refugee camp on Sept. 15.
  — TIME.com, 19 Sep. 2017
• The survivors soon learned that taller, darker green patches of rice shoots in the paddies marked the spots where the dead had fallen.
  — Time, 2 Feb. 2018
• 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, 11 July 2019
• Its white-framed windows look onto lush green paddy fields and a path of tall green trees.
  — Safina Nabi, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2021
• From the balcony, Phan points out at the surrounding rice paddies.
  — CNN, 28 Oct. 2019
• The journey that rice has taken from the paddy to your pantry is a long one, with the grains rubbing together all the while.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• These are not the terraced rice paddies that rise like stairs for giants in postcards from Asia.
  — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 27 Feb. 2023
• Since 2017, his home, paddy fields and decade-old nursery business have been washed away twice.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• The team was pushed back into a muddy rice paddy with no cover.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2021
• 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, 1 Oct. 2002
• A paddy wagon was outside and some of the drag queens were sitting inside.
  — Dean Eastmond, Teen Vogue, 29 June 2017
• Women in bright dresses took a walk in a rice paddy planted near the temple.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
• A plaid quilt of rice paddies is squeezed between the water and jungled mountains.
  — Doug Clark, New York Times, 28 May 2017
• One postcard shows Asian peasants working in paddy fields in the shadow of Big Ben.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2010
• 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, 7 Feb. 2018
• Manure and gas from cows is rich in methane, as are rice paddies, which emit the gas after they're flooded.
  — Cara Korte, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2023
• All come with 24-hour butler service and feature outdoor space with views of the rain forest, rice paddies, or the Ayung River.
  — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2024
• This verdant landscape is speckled with tropical flowers and towering trees, with views of tiered rice paddies in the distance.
  — Michaela Trimble, Vogue, 27 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024