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Example sentences for: duck

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

IRA accounts allow income-earners to duck some taxation on that income if they promise to save it until they're old.
Now replace "a duck" with "$1 million" and replace "a goose" with "a 10/11 shot at $5 million."
Having legalized itself through the backdoor, the industry proceeded to duck, skirt, or break every law passed to control it.
In Asia, which is preoccupied with its own problems, and in Australia, which has its mind on elections, the fate of the U.S. presidency did not dominate the news, though the Sydney Morning Herald ran a report Friday, headlined "Lame duck looks like a dying duck," from its Washington correspondent, Jennifer Hewett.
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) .