dog-paddle

Example Sentences

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Ms. Andersen was barely able to dog-paddle across.

From Washington Post • Mar. 2, 2023

The perfect example was when he tripped trying for a triple and tried to dog-paddle through the dirt to third base — failing miserably.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2022

For fun, he’d drop from tree branches hanging over the Ohio River and dog-paddle back to shore, unable to actually swim.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022

Using his plodding dog-paddle, Dusty led the ducks around in a slow turn, brought them back past the hunters, only a few feet from the shoreline.

From Time Magazine Archive

It had happened to them often enough on previous expeditions across the river, and they would swim after the boat and, using it as a float, dog-paddle to the shore.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy