Example sentences for: duck

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

  • He says that Inglis would be "a whisper" in the Senate, a lame duck as soon as he took office.

  • Mara Liasson, Sam Donaldson (ABC's This Week ), and George F. Will ( This Week ) think it doesn't matter--Clinton is a lame duck, and it's not really a gift.

  • Dowd is an odd duck: Most often she writes about Hollywood, fashion, everything trivial, while wrapping it up in some political context.

  • Do you want to miss this generation's Duck Soup (1933)?

  • Instead of noting that anybody who can control the week's news with a press conference, a foreign-policy announcement, and a tea with domestic dissidents is no lame duck, the pundits indulged in psychobiography: Clinton is frustrated because "the end is now in sight" for his presidency (O'Beirne ) and he has yet to establish his "legacy" (George Will, This Week ; Morton Kondracke, The McLaughlin Group ). Because they will be chewing on the legacy thing for three more years, the commentarians recently ordered a crate of dentures.


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