Example sentences for: buck

How can you use “buck” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Like all good Republicans, Steinbrenner's Yanks buck regulation: When other owners tried to stop Steinbrenner from signing a separate endorsement deal with Adidas, arguing it would undercut the entire league's endorsement plan, he told them to get lost.

  • The press loves Republican traitors, and McCain's willingness to buck his party bosses on campaign finance and tobacco makes great copy.

  • It's corporate "synergy" at its ugliest: Only a sap gives away an honest opinion when there's a buck to be made passing someone on to a corporate partner.

  • Several recent reviews buck the critical consensus and deride the book, the story of a Confederate deserter, for being too self-consciously novelistic (James Gardner, National Review ). Like "a literary approximation of an already literary idea of reality," says Slate's James Wood.

  • In simple terms, the buck stops with me.


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