Example sentences for: ducked

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

  • (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.)

  • Clinton has ducked them in Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, and Iraq.

  • Ames was Vietnam in reverse: McCain ducked the fight, and Quayle took the beating.

  • 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.

  • Abortion rights advocates have ducked the A-word for years.


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