Example sentences for: ducking

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

  • Keyes wasn't ducking the pitch.

  • But his strategic advantage is the opposite: Having proved his courage as a soldier, he can get away with ducking fights as a candidate.

  • Crossfire hosts not only are freer to ask more pointed questions, but they're also free to point out that a guest hasn't answered them, to follow up two or three or four times, and ultimately either to extract an answer or to make vividly clear that the guest is ducking.

  • Lawyers' stand-bys such as aforesaid, forthwith, hereafter, hereby, herein, hereinafter , and even the ubiquitous said are condemned by the author as “tricky, ducking, bobbing words,’ “flabby words,’ whose only claim to precision is their traditional use, not worth saving.

  • [of] ducking his handsome head and raising his eyes" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone ), finally emerges as a movie star.


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