duck

Example Sentences

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Reader Cindy Simon from Pacific Palisades shares an anecdote: “I had just moved to L.A. from New Jersey. My friend and I — young mothers — ducked out of our baby-centered life to see ‘American Gigolo.’

From Los Angeles Times

I always imagined the countryside would be full of green grass and colorful wildflowers—maybe with a bubbling stream where ducks swim or a red barn to house the horses grazing in a nearby meadow.

From Literature

She ducked her head back in and made her way down the wooden tree house stairs.

From Literature

We duck into the nearest deli—the kind with a handwritten soup board and a line that moves just slowly enough to read it twice.

From Salon

“He didn’t shy away. He didn’t duck. He didn’t fade back,” Vrabel said.

From Los Angeles Times