Example sentences for: ducks

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

  • Egrets, ducks and geese now gather at waterfowl resting ponds in large numbers; and native prairie grass has been planted to return natural diversity and other wildlife to the area.

  • ' Basquear is probably derived from Celtic waska `oppression'; una basquería `a dirty trick' might be from Basque , although the word for the Basque language is vascuense (eúscaro in Basque), and one would expect the Spanish spellings of words relating to the Basques to begin with a v . I do not know about pato , as in ser el pato de la boda : ducks are usually considered objects of sympathy, as in pagar el pato `to pay the duck, be blamed for someone else's misdeeds' or hacerse pato `to make oneself a duck, play dumb' rather than “be the life of the party.”

  • Somnolent cats and playful kittens abound, and sea ducks and geese can be found at many coastal fishing villages.

  • Duck, sometimes ducks, tended to be used by older men to a girl friend or wife, sometimes a woman of casual acquaintance, such as a barmaid or waitress.

  • Our once-safe schools have become slaughterhouses, our children sitting ducks for any pot-smoking, Marilyn Manson-listening, trench-coated deviant with a grievance.


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