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  • He dogpaddled for a few moments, dunking his head and pushing from rock to rock, then, bored, stood up and began wading upstream.

    Baby Games Chelsea White 2010

  • My nephew took a scared look; then he held his nose, jumped for it into the pool, and dogpaddled away like mad.

    See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005

  • I grew up in a household where you could get grounded for a month even quoting someone saying "the n-word" about African-Americans, and what with both of my parents being artists and all, we dogpaddled our way through the Nixon years and the Reagan decade with epithets hurled at the TV by both father and mother.

    11/26/02 I'm basically the most 2002

  • I grew up in a household where you could get grounded for a month even quoting someone saying "the n-word" about African-Americans, and what with both of my parents being artists and all, we dogpaddled our way through the Nixon years and the Reagan decade with epithets hurled at the TV by both father and mother.

    11/20/02 This was one of 2002

  • Moving silently, we slid through the low vegetation, over the bank, and down into the canal, submerged ourselves up to our necks, and dogpaddled across.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • Glad Poppy is going to recover, what a trooper, dogpaddled it's way to shore with a collapsed lung.

    Newsvine - Get Smarter Here jameseg 2010

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