What is "rice paddies"

Usage examples of "rice paddies".

The platoon detoured around it, into the chest-deep, leech-infested rice paddies, holding their noses and swearing at this further outrage.

In the rice paddies, in the fields of India, in the marshes of Iraq, in the villages the world over, men and women stooped to gather the crop as they had since the dawn of time.

Ten, maybe twelve buildings, cluster of little terraced rice paddies.

You can't tell from the aerial, but they're (a) too steep-sided to build rice paddies on them and (b) from 100 to 200 feet high, so that you can't see the village from Highway 5.

Humans withered and died there in those napalm-filled jungles, those booby-trapped rice paddies.

A few fires burned, but with the rice paddies wet there weren’.

You two would be splattered across a half mile or so of rice paddies.

For an instant it was very dark, then as Rick's eyes became adjusted to the darkness he saw that the road was visible as a white pathway between the rice paddies.

A moment later the hell-hound burst out of the thicket of bamboo above the terraced rice paddies.

At this point nothing is left to the south except for a few miles of rice paddies and then the volcanic mountains where Altamiras are making names for themselves as guerilla fighters.

His mother had frowned upon such activities, of course, insisting that the son of a Duke should not dirty his hands with the mud of rice paddies or foul his clothes with the slime of a sea catch.

All he was going to do was make his way down the dikes between the rice paddies until he was close to the Japanese compound.

Christ knows, I've done all the crawling through rice paddies I'm going to do on this trip.

But then, Caucasians had this disturbing propensity for seeing Asians as just another part of the exotic landscape, along with the Nipa palms, rice paddies and mangrove swamps.

The onset of the rainy season had already begun, turning the ground marshy, flooding the many-tiered rice paddies.