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Examples of paddle wheel in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
The Catawba Queen is a replica Mississippi River paddle wheel boat that seats 149 passengers.
—Joe Marusak, Charlotte Observer, 16 Apr. 2024
The rear of the boat, where the Dixie II has its paddle wheel, is the stern, and that’s why she may be called a stern-wheeler.
—Reed Parsell, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
Built in Delaware in 1888, St. Lucie was a 122-foot-long stern paddle wheel steamship with 14 staterooms and 3 decks.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2023
The Sultana was a Civil War-era paddle wheel steamboat which exploded and burned on the Mississippi River on April 27, 1865.
—Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 12 Nov. 2022
Shallow waters in Mjosa, the country’s largest lake, kept its famed Skibladner paddle wheel boat tied up at port and prompted city officials in Oslo to send out text messages urging people to take shorter showers and avoid watering lawns.
—New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
American Queen Voyages offers several cruises along the Mississippi on paddle wheel steamboats like the American Queen.
—Elizabeth Rhodes, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2021
In the second ad, algae is grown in little dishes, cultivated in a tiny seawater pond, and kept circulating by a minuscule paddle wheel.
—Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2020
Chris Sabick identified the wreckage as being a paddle wheel belonging to the steamboat Phoenix.
—Allen Kim, CNN, 9 Sep. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1685, in the meaning defined above
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“Paddle wheel.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paddle%20wheel. Accessed 5 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
paddle wheel
noun
: a wheel with boards around its outer edge used to move a vessel
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