Sentence examples for as a duck from inspiring English sources
It's not as forgiving as a duck or a turkey.
Not so much a swansong as a duck quack.
They have about as much family resemblance as a duck and a bowl of pasta.
Nothing as eye-catching as a duck island emerged yesterday, when the Treasury's Coins public expenditure database was made public.
There was music, high jinks and a bowl of fruit punch as big as a duck pond.
And yet, once one can see this picture as a duck, they can never be seen the same way again.
Despised by the North and discarded by the South, Fillmore was as dead a duck as the White House has ever accommodated.
Two years later, she ran for the Senate as a duck-hunting farmer's daughter with "rock-solid Arkansas values".
The Giants, meanwhile, treated the lockout as a duck-and-cover drill, hoping that continuity and player development would compensate for free-agent losses.
Mr. Bruzzese is also pitching script analysis to studios as a duck-and-cover technique — for "when the inevitable argument of 'I am not going to take the blame if this movie doesn't work' comes up," his Web site says.
Describing the document as "a duck-billed platypus," George Weigel, the neoconservative biographer of Pope John Paul II, has derided the language of whole sections as "clotted and muddled".
