Sentence examples for like a quack from inspiring English sources

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"First off, Mathieu said, 'Devereux looks like a quack; he's too bizarre,"' Mr. Desplechin said.

The list goes on and on as Trump offers inflammatory ideas and proposals to "heal" the country like a quack peddler selling fake medicine to suggestible crowds.

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So last May Young underwent an unusual "misting" treatment that sounds like something only a quack would push.

And people know that promises of quick fixes and more spending this country can't afford, at times like this, are like the promises of a quack doctor selling a miracle cure".We do not offer that today.

People know that promises of quick fixes and more spending this country can't afford, at times like this, are like the promises of a quack doctor selling a miracle cure.

Anyway, didn't you say he was a quack?" "I like that he could talk a dog off a meat wagon," Audie said.

The male's call is a soft proop-proop whistle, similar to that of the common teal, whereas the female has a mallard-like descending quack, and a low croak when flushed.

Like a cynical quack, Mr Sarkozy prescribes homeopathic cures in which policies like protectionism are so much diluted that they cease to function.

Playing off the company’s name, which is believed to sound like a duck’s quack, the company’s advertising agency conjured up a duck.

If somebody wants to put a label on it and call it a politician, that's like saying a doctor is a quack or something," he said.

Tim Russert analyzes the candidates' campaign strategies, while headlines like "American doctors call Pasteur a quack" scroll along the bottom of multiple screens.

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