How to Use paddy in a Sentence

paddy

noun

• The farm also has a small rice paddy to demonstrate how the grain is grown.
  — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 23 July 2026
• Many farmers were ordered to turn their dry fields into paddies.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Mar. 2026
• The quietest belongs to the rare brant bird that squawks just out of sight along the rice paddies and riverbanks.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
• Hours and hours of rolling green hills and rice paddies passed by the windows, the pale pools amid the shoots flashing bits of sky.
  — Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
• Rice paddies emit methane and nitrous oxide from wet or flooded soils.
  — Hanqin Tian, Fortune, 25 May 2026
• Morning Time to don the hiking boots for a hike through Sapa’s rolling hills and rice paddies.
  — Tamara Hinson, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Mar. 2026
• Rice paddies stretch endlessly, acres etched into the land that even the brightest headlights cannot reach.
  — Joseph Trinidad, Longreads, 16 June 2026
• This had a multiplying effect, as paddy fields next to shrimp ponds turned brackish and rice yields collapsed.
  — Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, The Dial, 7 July 2026
• The luxe property is a vision of emerald rice paddies, lily ponds, and landscaped gardens.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 June 2026
• Kapuga nods to men digging mud out of shin-deep water, preparing the paddy fields for planting rice.
  — Diaa Hadid, NPR, 16 May 2026
• Uncle Vernon had flown into a paddy on account of the seven lessons left outstanding.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
• Wealthy businessmen and politicians began seeing dollar signs where local farmers saw paddy fields.
  — Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, The Dial, 7 July 2026
• Today, visitors encounter a bamboo café and works scattered across a landscape of paddy fields, jungle, and wooded hills.
  — Gisela Williams, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
• The setting was a lush landscape of rice paddies, red basalt soil, the golden sands of the South China Sea beaches and bamboo thickets.
  — Pavlo Fedykovych, CNN Money, 12 June 2026
• The team has tested the approach in rice paddies and wetlands, environments naturally rich in iron and organic matter.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
• This change has lowered methane emissions compared with keeping the paddies continuously flooded.
  — Hanqin Tian, Fortune, 25 May 2026
• Glimmering seaside vistas and views of rolling foothills and rice paddies pass by as the train whisks through Central Vietnam’s impossibly green countryside.
  — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Feb. 2026
• Inside Albufera Natural Park, this watchtower is a limestone promontory that gives views across paddy fields.
  — Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 June 2026
• As good as that hot spot is, the more intimate way to experience the ubiquitous emerald paddies is by bicycle, which many Ubud hotels and tour companies offer led by local guides.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 24 Apr. 2026
• In the past, irrigated rice paddies were kept flooded throughout the growing season, resulting in constant greenhouse gas emissions produced by microbes that thrive in the wet environment.
  — Hanqin Tian, Fortune, 25 May 2026
• Shuvash Chandra Mondol, 45, still remembers carrying heavy bags of paddy on his shoulders during his childhood.
  — Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, The Dial, 7 July 2026
• In 2018, third-party researchers located a crash site in a rice paddy of Lampang province and linked it to McKinney's aircraft.
  — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
• During breeding season several Sarus Cranes made a nest in Buriram, Thailand’s rice paddies and taught their chicks their surroundings, first carrying them on their backs.
  — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
• It’s been a long journey from a paddy farm in a Tamil Nadu village to the heights of New York’s culinary scene for Semma’s affable chef Vijaya Kumar.
  — Sarah Khan, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Mar. 2026
• Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died.
  — Christian Orozco, NBC news, 18 Dec. 2025
• Paired with its varied landscapes—beaches, rice paddies, jungle interiors, and volcanic terrain—Bali offers a wide range of experiences in a single trip, without requiring long-distance travel.
  — Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 25 Feb. 2026
• The reward is a rural landscape dotted with rice paddies and spice plantations, ancient Hindu temples and Roman Catholic churches, under-the-radar heritage hotels, and avant-garde restaurants.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Apr. 2026
• Los Angeles — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died.
  — CBS News, 18 Dec. 2025
• Why Betta Fish Are So Popular Betta fish, also known as Siamese fighting fish, are native to Southeast Asia and can be found in areas such as freshwater rice paddies.
  — Sierra Leone Starks, Parents, 10 Feb. 2026
• This is a frankly majestic imagining of 16th-century feudal Japan filled with paddy fields, winding valleys, windswept plains, and teeming towns all knitted together into a virtual tapestry of striking geographic verisimilitude.
  — Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025