Example sentences for: ducked

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

  • As the other candidates took potshots at the leader of the pack for (according to them) coddling China, wanting to federalize education policy, equivocating on abortion, and endangering Social Security with a huge tax cut, Bush ducked, smiled and declined to take the charges entirely seriously.

  • c) Yes, Clinton ducked too many important questions.

  • When asked whether "the administration ought to insist" that these requirements "be met" as a condition of negotiation, DeLay twice ducked the question.

  • (He ducked the press and entered through a side door.)

  • (For some reason, this works best at the end of a cocktail party, when you have ducked into the bathroom and are feeling slightly squiffy.)


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