Sentence examples for quack for from inspiring English sources

After insisting Atkins was a quack for three decades, obesity experts are now finding it difficult to ignore the copious anecdotal evidence that his diet does just what he has claimed.

The Big Duck had, and has, an uncanny knack — sorry, rhymes with quack — for attaining global celebrity and became famous as the gateway to the Hamptons: Long Island's own Arc de Triomphe, only nuttier.

8 P.M. (HBO) CLOUD ATLAS (2012) Tom Hanks and Halle Berry, above, take on multiple roles — for Mr. Hanks, a Hawaiian goatherd, a scientist, a London gangster and a 19th-century quack; for Ms. Berry, a muckraking journalist, a researcher and the wife of a temperamental maestro — in this adaptation of David Mitchell's 2004 novel, written and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer.

A little too much self-reverent quacking for my ear, then.

For the next six months, I'm handing myself over to the quacks for the treatment of a chronic medical condition.

With debt still cheap, and investors quacking for more, it's probably a matter of time before bankers and company boards throw investors more deals, including a lot more crummy ones, to nibble on.

Physicians had been struggling to out-compete alternative healing sects and "quacks" for decades.

Therefore, it may not be wise to ban the administration of these injections for this category of health workers (who might be untrained) because people may either not obtain the necessary injections, or they may visit quacks for the same [ 17].

Listen to barks and chatters for a squirrel, or quacking for a duck.

At best it makes it seem like healthy eating is strictly for the wealthy; at worst, it's quack science for attempting to export Paltrow's wacky elimination diet (no bell peppers, eggplant or corn? Huh?) to a populace that's improperly nourished and financially struggling.

Yet this week its bungling of a public protest turned a loony yogi who peddles quack cures for AIDS, cancer and corruption into a rallying figure for an angry public and opposition.