Sentence examples for duck off from inspiring English sources

His lasting legacy could have been that of a broken player who didn't know when to duck off the stage.

I recommend loitering around their office, waiting for them to duck off to the bathroom, and quickly fiddling with their cooling unit.

Sadly I must bid you all good evening in the next post because I have to duck off and record our podcast - Australian Politics Weekly.

It's with a creeping sense of crowd rage that we decide to duck off into a cafe for some strategic planning.

Harris also found new audiences by performing for the Big Brother housemates in 2012 and touring student union venues with Duck Off, a show whose adult humour contrasted with his previously child-friendly act.

So you can join the throngs in the pretty cobbled streets, and then you can duck off and be climbing the dark, cool stairs of a Cubist house in solitude.

I chucked him a grape, but the splash of it landing scared the poor blighter and as the fruit swiftly sank, the mallard quickly ducked off, uninterested.

Camilla, having an appointment to visit the State Library of Western Australia on the other side of the city, ducked off in a flash of periwinkle blue.

A year ago, Pete Sampras ducked off the court at Arthur Ashe Stadium in resignation, greeting his soon-to-be-wife, Bridgette Wilson, and clasping the silver plate in consolation.

Hendry was unlucky in the seventh frame, when a brown he played slowly for position ducked off course within a few inches of the pocket.

Sometimes this may be a traditional cliffhanger: a character left in a state of emotional crisis while the novel ducks off for 50 or 60 pages at the western front.