DUCK in a Sentence

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For DUCK, below is one of 88 sentences:
But the duck swam quickly to her, seized her head in its beak and drew her into the water, and there the old witch had to drown.

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 Meanings and Examples of DUCK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
duck
 n.  a bird that lives by water and has webbed feet, short neck, and large beak
 v.  submerge or plunge suddenly
Classic Sentence: (68 in 5 pages)
1  As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille
2  Well, all at once here comes a canoe; just a beauty, too, about thirteen or fourteen foot long, riding high like a duck.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII.
3  However, the duck, who slept in the open air in the yard, heard them coming, and jumping into the brook which ran close by the inn, soon swam out of their reach.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET
4  Soon after came up a millstone, an egg, a duck, and a pin; and Chanticleer gave them all leave to get into the carriage and go with them.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ADVENTURES OF CHANTICLEER AND PARTLET
5  But the duck swam quickly to her, seized her head in its beak and drew her into the water, and there the old witch had to drown.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In FUNDEVOGEL
6  The duck came to them, and Hansel seated himself on its back, and told his sister to sit by him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In HANSEL AND GRETEL
7  The girl, however, when she saw the old woman striding towards her, changed, with her magic wand, her sweetheart Roland into a lake, and herself into a duck swimming in the middle of it.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In SWEETHEART ROLAND
8  "Pa is coming tomorrow and he's going to land on me like a duck on a June bug," answered Scarlett dolorously.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  But if I tried to draw a draft on it, the Yankees would be on me like a duck on a June bug and then neither of us would get it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  Hams in wine, pressed duck, pate de foie gras, rare fruits in and out of season, were spread in profusion.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  The guns banged, and a duck fluttered.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  As he approached us, he began to make uncouth noises, and held up his hands to show us his fingers, which were webbed to the first knuckle, like a duck's foot.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
13  He smiled briefly when he saw men dodge and duck at the long screechings of shells that were thrown in giant handfuls over them.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
14  He was now decently clothed in a "sport shirt" open at the neck, sneakers and duck trousers of a nebulous hue.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
15  A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  A duck will not always dabble in the same gutter.
2  Without the gun, I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.
3  I've told him that he's heading for trouble, but he doesn't listen - it's just water off a duck's back.
4  No parent can duck out of his duty to his children.
5  You can't duck out once you've taken on a responsibility.
6  Some species of duck dive for food, while others dabble for plants and insects near the surface.
7  Julia Child can cleave a whole roast duck in two.
8  As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose; Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.
9  Well, everybody WAS in a state of mind now, and they sings out: "The whole BILIN' of 'm 's frauds! Le's duck 'em! le's drown 'em! le's ride 'em on a rail!" and everybody was whooping at once, and there was a rattling powwow.
10  The River Thames was the centre of a daft spectacle yesterday as a giant 50 foot rubber duck swam down it to celebrate the launch of Jackpotjoy.com's new Facebook FUNdation, a bursary granting funds.
11  I saw the ball hurtling towards me and ducked.
12  The big boy ducked all the small boys in the swimming pool.
13  Every afternoon they went to the park to feed the ducks.
14  A goose was hatched among ducks.
15  The consumption of ducks has increased in recent years, so it may be practical to define the various classes of ducks.