Words similar to duck
Example sentences for: duck
How can you use “duck” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Movies as synthetic as Con Air make me wonder if my time wouldn't be more enjoyably spent watching a duck.
In an effort to avoid imprinting, we enlisted the aid of a regular barnyard muscovy duck that was hanging around the Seabird Station.
Perhaps no duck was lamer than Ronald Reagan after Iran-Contra, yet resignation was never a serious issue."
A few examples follow: dipper duck for the pied-billed grebe; jakes for young male turkeys (their elders are toms); loopwood or witch hobble for the hobblebush ( Viburnum alnifolium ) because the stems bend over and grow roots at the tips creating a loop that can abruptly trip a hiker in snowy woods; pippin , not for the apple, but for the tangy, red berry of wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); pugger for ferret; quong-queedle for the bobolink; rain crow for the cuckoo, often heard before rain; scoke (or skoke ) for pokeweed ( Phytolacca americana ) of Massachusett Indian origin; skipper for a young deer; and finally an imaginative one, whippoorwill shoes for the lady's slipper orchid (Cypripedium acaule) .
JoC : "The best known and loved of all American seasonings for … pork and sausages, and for duck, goose and rabbit."