Example sentences for: tuck

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

  • While you were writing yesterday's last dispatch, I was eating noodles and steamed vegetables from a palatable take-out joint in Tribeca, watching Hardball , and preparing to tuck my almost-5-year-old son into bed.

  • A hollow cube 110 m (360 ft) high and 106 m (347 ft) wide, it could straddle the Champs-Elysées and tuck Notre-Dame underneath it.

  • Or the two Scotsmen who tuck $10 bills into their friend's casket and the third who swaps the bills for a $30 check.

  • It is unlike Dr. Aman to cloak his subject—dirty language—under the euphemism “verbal aggression”: he and most of the authors of the articles appearing in Maledicta let it all hang out; some, however, tuck it away neatly and write under a pseudonym.

  • I saw gear much like it on Hindu women in Nepal, who would wrap and tuck some of the veil around the midsection, carrying groceries, the baby, and other sundries in its overlapping folds.


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