QUACK in a Sentence

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For QUACK, below is one of 8 sentences:
Finally his decision was pronounced: they were to go abroad, but to put no faith in foreign quacks, and to apply to him in any need.

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 Meanings and Examples of QUACK
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quack
 n.  untrained person who pretends to be a physician; charlatan
Classic Sentence:
1  She calculated his capacity as she would a jug's, and filled him up every day with quack cure-alls.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  He was a quack dentist on his rounds, who was offering to the public full sets of teeth, opiates, powders and elixirs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
3  Only, those German quacks are mischievous.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
4  Finally his decision was pronounced: they were to go abroad, but to put no faith in foreign quacks, and to apply to him in any need.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
5  Ducks and geese ran quacking across my path.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
6  The cows lowed it, the dogs whined it, the sheep bleated it, the horses whinnied it, the ducks quacked it.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
Example Sentence:
1  Do not be misled by the exorbitant claims of this quack; he cannot cure you.
2  I went everywhere for treatment, tried all sorts of quacks.