How To Use Duck In A Sentence

  • It's penguins, albatrosses, caracaras, steamer ducks and a couple of endemic small jobs you've come for.
  • The plan is a dead duck: there's no money.
  • Even the normal Perigordine fare of duck la gras and truffles washed down with red wine and pastis has yielded in favour of Scottish food and drink in celebration of the Auld Alliance.
  • Overextension in the lower back results in this 'duck-like' posture. Times, Sunday Times
  • The main course was going to be a roast duck, served with cranberry stuffing and scalloped potatoes.
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  • He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
  • I went to the fountain and saw varieties of water plants like water lilies and duckweed.
  • What we do have here is a rather queer looking creature with a faceless Charlie Brown head, duck legs, two jointless yet pliable arms, and tentacles.
  • Simon ducked his head, cut a piece of ravioli in half with his fork and put it in his mouth.
  • This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce. News from The Scientist
  • Stewards held back furious fans, and security personnel had to duck as objects seemed to be thrown. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, the duck confit was cut up in cold bits and enmeshed in a strange, oily construction of mushrooms and haricots verts.
  • Ship the pole, duck and use the paddle if you lose momentum. Times, Sunday Times
  • As they turned around, Cary ducked into a cave to avoid being seen.
  • When you shut up your eyes , I like a duck in a thunderstorm . I can but stop and wait beside you whisht .
  • Trent ducked under another swing attack, swept with his feet in a scissors kick that tripped up his opponent and forced him to the ground.
  • The crispy duck wasn't crispy enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • During summertime, especially in Saint Petersburg, the ducks and geese love to swim.
  • The duck feather did not contain diagnostic characters for species identification.
  • Along the way you'll encounter bath plugs, rubber ducks and get the obligatory soaking from intermittent showers.
  • For the main course I had the ‘crisp confit of duck’ with puy lentils and smoked bacon ragout with a red wine sauce.
  • Richard inspected and rejected as poor towel substitutes a loofah, a half-empty bottle of shampoo, and a small yellow rubber duck. NEVERWHERE
  • Again and again, by feint of foot and hand and body he continued to inveigle Sandel into leaping back, ducking, or countering. A PIECE OF STEAK
  • I stumbled over the fallen coon who had pivoted me, ducked a swat from a club, dived between a bull's legs, and was free. Some Adventures With the Police
  • Or "Middle East in snuggle-fit over photos of little boy feeding a duck. The True Path Is A Maze Of Twisty Little Passages, All Unique
  • The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
  • A and chronic smelly while stumbling out the telly lyrics courtesy of www. killerhiphop.com Im so fly Im so ferry and the way I flow is very ginsu or machete, move my pencil move his deli platinum band platinum bezzie make a straight girl out of lezzie magazine mac bezzie keep my windows like the prezzie press a button than Im stuntin my roof look like its duckin meter go WN.com - Business News
  • With that retort, Will shoved Mark into a table, but Mark countered, ducking from a roundhouse swing and taking Will's legs out from underneath him.
  • Real chefs like a challenge, so when I walked through the door I'd have a common merganser on my duck strap. Best Tasting Ducks
  • Birds - blackbirds and thrushes, robins, starlings, rooks and crows, jays, ducks, seagulls and owls will eat slugs
  • ducktail" was barely visible from the cabin, standing in sharp contrast to the GT3's rear spoiler that dominates - and obstructs - the rearward view. Autoblog
  • She tried to duck out of his grip, half-succeeding, and he went off-balance.
  • As we dip thin slices of raw geoduck into seasoned soy, the clean, fresh sweetness of the clam seems to affirm these thoughts.
  • We saw long tailed ducks - thousands of them, packed together in rafts hundreds of metres long.
  • After six weeks, the ducks can be fed entirely on locally produced feed-sweet potatoes, taro, banana, pumpkin, choko, etc. 28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture
  • Remove the duck pieces, skim off as much fat as possible.
  • There is capacity to raise one million ducks a year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Winston Churchill was given a guided tour of the D-Day beaches in a duck.
  • The duck boats are still parked in dry dock.
  • Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent… Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
  • In 1948 Heck won first place amateur with his broadbill and best diving duck, the same year in which Crisfield's Lem Ward won "Best in Show."
  • Canada Goose Inc. Canada Goose's Kensington parka in steel color, insulated with 625-fill-power white duck down and featuring a two-way adjustable, fleece-lined down hood with a removable coyote-fur ruff. Coolhunter
  • Chris Taylor was out for a duck in the second over.
  • he ducked behind the garden wall and waited
  • He devoured some duck and turkey cat food while I administered a flea treatment, because he was starting to look ropey again.
  • There were painted mallards, wood ducks, and mergansers carved where possible in and on the armrests, in fact.
  • The duck's feathers shed water immediately.
  • She took to dancing like a duck to water.
  • Which was what she was thinking about as she drifted back to the present, to feeding the ducks on the pond. AFTERMATH
  • He is out gunning for wild ducks.
  • For that reason many fighters ducked him, and full credit to Mosley for taking the chance.
  • If we ignore such factors as selection, panmixia, correlation, and the effects of use and disuse during lifetime, and still regard the case of the domestic duck as a valid proof of the inheritance of the effects of use and disuse, we must also accept it as an equally valid proof that the effects of use and disuse are _not_ inherited. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin
  • I'm sorry to say that it's not true about the quack of a duck.
  • Gavia" is Latin for sea smew or duck, and "immer" has two possible sources. Columbiatribune.com stories
  • But he was not to enjoy himself long, for the duck was telling all her neighbours about the ill-usage her little one had received; and the mischief-making little wagtail thought as he had seen the lanky bird eating what he called the kingfisher's fishes, he would go and tell, and then sit on the bank and see the quarrel there would be; for he considered that the heron had no more business to take the fish out of the pond than the toad had to catch flies. Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn
  • He gave us the recipe for the last of these, which can be made with salmon instead of wild duck or grouse. A Passion for Food
  • But when the Peking duck arrives, he at last focuses on the food and watches in admiration as the waiters carve the roasted bird.
  • He was bowled out for a duck.
  • Hundreds of ducks brought a splash of colour to an East Yorkshire village - and helped raise hundreds of pounds for the local pre-school.
  • We ambled by the water passing moorhens, ducks, geese, rabbits and squirrels.
  • He's got the looks of a film star now, but he was a real ugly duckling as a child.
  • Order the ‘Black and White Series’ and you'll get Baerii caviar served on blinis or toasts; ‘French Masterpiece’ is duck or goose foie gras served on toast.
  • The big boy ducked all the small boys in the swimming pool.
  • She's taken to her new position like a duck to water.
  • Who wants a rubber duck when you can play with a miniature ocean liner or toy paddle steamer? Times, Sunday Times
  • Stillington made major inroads into Harrogate's batting as they dismissed three home batsmen for ducks.
  • The US military and law enforcement have used video games back to Duck Hunt to teach trainees in "shoot/don't shoot" choices (largely "shoot" for the military and "don't shoot" for law enforcement, but the techniques are very similar). Archive 2008-03-01
  • In too many places now, confit of duck approaches the commonplace.
  • The cat sat in the tree ready to pounce on the ducks below.
  • Oh sure ... every now and then throw in a Chuck Berry duckwalk while you grin like an idiot. Unclebob Diary Entry
  • Three times I can remember it: the ending tunnel silhouette in "The Third Man," falling rubble jarringly breaking up a scene (by splicing the foreground and midground) in of all things "Duck Soup," and noticing a borrowed composition from "La Dolce Vida" (namely, a long shot where multiple people were running and the camera followed them) showing up in "Little Miss Sunshine. Reverse Storyboarding
  • Reheat, pour over duck legs, and serve immediately.
  • When I'm in the area, I'll occasionally duck into the place to have a beer.
  • The bottom comes up to eighty feet, which makes it impossible to duck under anything larger than a motorboat. NIMITZ CLASS
  • They will have expected you to duck this punch and instead you let the blow bounce of your granite chin like an errant moth.
  • Iowa birding is good; there are quite a few pelicans here and some good ducks.
  • They are easy to blow and get a "ducky" quack, and you can find a replacement just about anywhere if you lose it or break it. I am a beginner hunter and wanted to get some calls for duck and goose.
  • Some birds compensate for a lack of structural modification to the intestinal tract by consuming large quantities of grass e.g., ducks, geese and the takahe.
  • The next 32 runners-up were each given an oven-ready duck to take home for dinner.
  • That isolation along with a lack of funding for extensive aerial and ground surveys translate to light monitoring - nothing near the scale and intensity aimed at ducks.
  • She ducked her head to look more closely at the inscription.
  • Everywhere I saw helicopters jukeing and jinking, ducking and dodging.
  • For my first day on the job I bought a navy blue sweater with a big duck on the front.
  • The mail-order range has now been extended to include beef, duck, lamb, chicken, pheasant and goose.
  • Restrictions and slaughter provisions apply to domestic fowls, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowls, quail, ratites, pigeons, pheasants and partridges reared or kept in captivity.
  • Ducks lit on the pond.
  • He drove these wild ducks on the bow into the water with a punt - pole.
  • The 20 state and federal wildlife areas and refuges are open for duck hunting generally on Wednesdays and weekends.
  • The term lame duck refers to an elected official who has lost an election, or soon will be leaving office, during the period between the election and the date a successor will take over.
  • He ducks into an alleyway in an attempt to lose his pursuers, but before he can scurry over a low wall, they catch up.
  • Six chickens, two ducks, a cow, and a fuzzy grey gosling named Molly also came with the house. Exit the Actress
  • The chatter of Farash and the others seemed as senseless as the idiotic quacking of ducks, and yet at the same moment, they all seemed to be an integral part of the great design of things.
  • We observed an influx of long-tailed ducks into coastal lagoons in July, followed by dispersal to other areas in late August.
  • The main courses are dominated by marine and freshwater fish, including the ubiquitous pike; or else game - rabbit, pheasant and duck.
  • There are a variety of ways to cook geoduck. Smithsonian
  • Hence, it is necessary to achieve a balanced view of Duck and the poets who followed him.
  • It was a real transformation dress, a duckling - into-swan gown, with a tiny little waist and a tight-fitting bodice, balanced by crinolined skirts. Passionate Relationship
  • A duck or a goose from Bunce?
  • This bacterium is primarily carried by birds such as parakeets, parrots, pigeons, turkeys, and ducks.
  • The first act deals with the beastly behaviour of bees and act two features avaricious beetles, greedy ducks and dopey crickets with a pronounced Cork accent.
  • Avoiding the rain he ducked into a nearby building and fled downstairs to take a covered shortcut to his work area.
  • A cassoulet Toulousain is a stew of white beans, sausage, smoked ham, white wine, duck-leg confit and vegetables.
  • Oliver Kay, Football Correspondent, and James Ducker.
  • He's bringing contemporary works to Los Angeles, including Christopher Wheeldon's 2006 "DGV," originally created for the Royal Ballet; a new piece, "Epimetheus," by Russell Ducker, from Britain, a company member; and "Solea," a pas de deux for Mr. Corella and his sister created by the flamenco dancer María Pagés, and. Debra Levine: Ballet's Angel Corella Looks Ahead ... and Back
  • He carried his bat for 102 from 153 deliveries and provided the backbone of an innings which featured a nervy patch during which three of the upper order were dismissed for ducks.
  • Goose, duck, and turkey are typical holiday fare in the Netherlands.
  • His hair was combed back into a perfect ducktail, and on top two tiny curls fell from his pomp.
  • I had pan-fried duck, black pudding and rosemary boudin with slivers of venison saddle, roast sweet potato and hoi sin sauce.
  • Even if the salad is dressed with strips of duck, bits of bacon lardons, goat cheese or sliced hard-boiled eggs, stay the course.
  • My first sight of a trench was of two greasy clay walls with a parapet on the top and duckboards on the bottom.
  • Vera Duckworth, alias Leeds-born Liz Dawn, booked a day off from serving chips at Roy's Rolls to become Peggy Lee.
  • Bush is not merely treating Clinton as a lame duck.
  • Speaking fluent French was a real asset in the land of the Cajuns, and most fun was working with the trappers, duck hunters, and alligator harvesters with their leases.
  • Above Muir, you'll wend past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
  • This gives them a distinct advantage over other sea duck. Times, Sunday Times
  • For my main course I had chosen a cassoulet of pork, lamb and duck with flageolet beans.
  • Season the cavity of the duck with salt and pepper and truss with kitchen string.
  • Ship the pole, duck and use the paddle if you lose momentum. Times, Sunday Times
  • This makes the whole colony a sitting duck for a man with a gun.
  • The duck print Viyella baby blouse & bloomers made in '81 - fabric bought by my MIL in '52. Oh, Fabric, Why Can't I Quit You? - A Dress A Day
  • If you are cooking duck breast, you can remove the skin before sealing the outer flesh in a pan and oven roasting.
  • Not to be outdone, the other soldier kept his footing and ducked, disengaging his sword from Herrick's.
  • As it grows in the river from an egg, it's bothered by brown trout, preyed on by goosanders (ducks with serrated bills) and cormorants as well as mergansers (another type of salmon-persecuting duck).
  • Other species found during the survey include coontail, fragrant waterlily, American pondweed, duckweed, American frogbit, cattail, soft-stem bulrush, and arrowhead.
  • Roy is the Ducks' high scorer this season and probably the most consistent player on the team.
  • Enter the UglyRipe, a lumpen, misshapen, odd duck of a tomato grown near Naples, Florida.
  • Although the spring migration has barely begun, tens of thousands of geese and huge flocks of ducks are already here.
  • The fact that so many people still wish Andie had ended up with her New Wave-ish, pompadoured best buddy speaks to how beloved and unforgettable Duckie turned out to be. Friday List: Ranking the John Hughes characters
  • Designed to bring women of varying skill levels together in the field, the Women on Target program has organized a variety of women-only hunts for 2002, including pursuing turkey, antelope, ducks, pheasants, chukars and whitetail deer.
  • But times change and in any case there's that joke called the Human Rights Commission, who couldn't organise a piss-up at the Dog and Duck, but who think you should let any Tom, Dick or Hari join your party even if they're the wrong fahking colour, and you can't be arsed with the hassle, you really can't. Christina Patterson: What we can learn from the Sikh in the BNP
  • As the name implies, to make a turducken, you will need a turkey, duck and chicken.
  • Out of the corner of my eye I saw a small duck waddling toward me.
  • In addition, my family included nine dogs, about 40 ducks and domestic fowls, eight geese, a Bornean deer that weighed about 150 pounds, and two long-armed apes.
  • Below we report the geographic distribution of long-tailed ducks, eiders, scoters, glaucous gulls, and Pacific loons with respect to month and ice cover.
  • There was a freebie starter of baby spring roll stuffed with duck confit and deep-fried fillet of monkfish.
  • The height change means that while you went through it with a slight stoop when you were young, you'll be going through in a duckwalk as a grownup, and considering that you do the equivalent of a couple of blocks underground your legs will be wobbly as hell by the end of it. Back from radio silence
  • A duck (of either gender - the term drake is not used in a culinary context) is usually six months old or more, while a duckling is younger.
  • Wild duck and water hens also frequent this area of the river and it is pleasant to watch from the bridge and note the wildlife come back to their old haunts.
  • He said: 'It can turn an ugly duckling into a swan. The Sun
  • I started off with the roast veal sweetbreads with collop of foie gras and morel jus, while Vicky opted for the roulade of duck fois gras cooked in truffle stock with cherry brioche.
  • The electric rides in the second park too have their share of eager-beaver customers who giggle and scream through the train ride, the merry-go-round and the horse and the duck rides.
  • Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method. Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
  • Kenji had to duck a swat from the eldest boy, but kept laughing.
  • Although the current consignor is anonymous, this coin was previously in the collections of Dr. Steven Duckor and Jay Brahin. Fresh Material, Pedigrees and September Coin Auctions — Part 2 : Coin Collecting News
  • I missed and suffered the ignominy of being bowled behind my legs for a golden duck. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like most of the sauces here, the duck's citrus glaze is notably reserved.
  • In complete contrast to our disagreeable dining companion, the duck liver parfait he ordered was rich and smooth.
  • I can recommend the asparagus with shrimps and a crispy duck egg; fresh, well-seasoned with a runny yolk. Times, Sunday Times
  • Add the hoisin sauce then glaze the duck with 2-3 ladles of the reserved cooking liquid. The Sun
  • This kind of metafictional goofing around was a common convention of the Looney Tunes cartoons, which often referred implicitly or explicitly to the offscreen animator, with characters looking upward in this way to get the attention of the artists a device most famously used in Chuck Jones' Duck Amuck a few years earlier. The Girl Can't Help It
  • In experiment, the effect of YGAPM in treating rat's liver injury as well as HBV-infected tree shrew and duck HBV-infected ducks was observed.
  • Thank goodness we've ducked out of the dinner party thing.
  • Ministers have ducked the question for years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Certainly, moths duck and weave in their escape attempts, for which their excellent wide spectrum sight is clearly advantageous.
  • - A "duckbill" valve has been installed at the outfall to prevent rising river waters from backing into the stream during major flooding events. The Marietta Times
  • My new boss is duck soup, but his wife is difficult to handle.
  • The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus. Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
  • Further into Chinatown there are more traditional market-type shops, including fishmongers with plastic buckets of eels, poulterers with flattened ducks and grocers with rambutans, lychees and other tropical Asian fruits.
  • It leaves a lame duck with the responsibility of pushing the Maastricht Bill through the Commons.
  • Duckweeds also have the advantage that they may be grown in axenic cultures, reproducing vegetatively.
  • British politicians suffered a collective crisis of confidence after the disastrous attempt to turn lame ducks into national champions in the 1960s and 1970s. Times, Sunday Times
  • A strain of virus named FM01 was isolated from the liver of dead semi-muscovy ducks characterized similar to Newcastle disease. It was determined to be a paramyxovirus type 1 by HA and HI tests.
  • He didn't duck fast enough to avoid the rock.
  • She wore a white duck skirt, a soft nainsook blouse open at the throat, the sailor collar knotted with a red silk scarf. Peggy Stewart at School
  • The 50 cm plaster duck has a little cowbell on its neck, to prove that it's really not alive, as the cowbell remains silent.
  • Robin ducked out to look up and down the hall, then brushed past Feng as she hurried back inside. Excerpt: Intuition by Allegra Goodman
  • The ducks on the river were managing the torrents and we thought we could manage the riverside amble.
  • The boys were splashing about and ducking each other in the pool.
  • His liking for non-confrontational politics looks like a clever sham, a neat way to duck under our perceptions.
  • International cuisine uses the eggs of other birds, including ducks, geese, sparrows, quails and ostriches, but it is the hen that has been universally domesticated.
  • I was walking down the main street and I saw a duck eating a dirty, mucky wet leaf - the poor things are not finding food.
  • He first examined the window sill, then ducked down and leaned out.
  • The document reveals that the bishop's menu would have included a range of meats, from mutton and beef to veal, geese, rabbit, duck and lamb.
  • They'd been ducking him in the water. Poor fellow, he cut a sorry figure.
  • Cook the duck until the juices run pale yellow when the flesh is pierced.
  • Another new duck for us was the exquisite Harlequin Duck, a waterfowl rarely spotted close to shore.
  • The classic Italian lunch includes several courses of olives, bruschetta, risotto, beans, and rabbit, duck and chicken from the rotisserie.
  • In the migratory season, waterfowl of different varieties, thousands of sandpipers and shanks and varieties of ducks flock to this feeding ground.
  • Its called seasickness, duck, and it turns you green. Brooklyn
  • Smitty caught it flat-footed; he had not even tried to duck.
  • Noyes asserts that the tube sometimes perforates the side of the ducks throat, and he gives Rat Munching on Ducks Bloody Ass Wounds its public debut as he notes, Rats were eating these two ducks alive. The Foie Gras Wars
  • Please, young women, smile or simper or smirk or grin, glower or glare, or just mope about if you like, but for the love of God, please put away the duck face.
  • Who could fail to be stirred into making her pappardelle with fresh porcini or roast wild duck with port and blackcurrant sauce?
  • Fish, roast duck, spareribs soup, shrimps and cabbage.
  • Jack ducked past a fallen ventilation duct on his way to the shuttle hangar.
  • W cygnine swan W anatine duck 1862-1893 dacelonine kingfisher W OOsW didine dodo 1885 OW avine bird 1881 OW falconine falcon OW buteonine buzzard fringilline finch 1874 - VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
  • Chisel shares, semi-and full duckfoot and sweep shares are commonly found in practice. 1. Labour productivity and distribution
  • Niedermayer put the Ducks ahead 2-1 in the second period, whisking in a backhander from the high slot after Travis Moen and Scott Niedermayer fought to keep the puck alive along the right boards in the Oilers 'zone. USATODAY.com
  • a duck-billed dinosaur
  • They are picking on a lame duck. Times, Sunday Times
  • However, roses are not swans, and all too often ugly ducklings remain ugly ducklings.
  • I mean, I'm not gonna quack like a duck for a consequence.
  • The roast duck was good, and so was the grilled lobster, despite a weirdly glowing sidecar of basil mashed potatoes.
  • The sweetness of the dressing goes perfectly with the duck and contrasts well with the refreshing crunchy salad. Times, Sunday Times
  • You've said previously that you felt like an ugly duckling when you were growing up. The Sun
  • Soaked, I ducked into Rubenstein's Furniture Store to get out of the rain.
  • Obama is rebounding from his party's midterm drubbing with the kind of lame-duck victories any White House would want. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Influxes of saltwater can ‘burn’ and destroy aquatic vegetation such as pondweed, najas and other freshwater and brackish water plants that serve as prime duck fodder.
  • The 'gavage' accentuates the process, fattening ducks for a 12 to 15 day period, and geese for about 15 to 18 days. Brad Haskel: Foie Gras: Something to Think About
  • With beef mignon, seared salmon, grilled tuna, and duck breast in tangerine sauce all on the menu, you won't lack for mouthwatering choices. The Greatest Fishing Lodges in the World

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