Sentence examples for try and duck from inspiring English sources

Assemblyman William L. Parment, a Democrat from Jamestown, N.Y., said Mr. Pataki has repeatedly showed a willingness to "try and duck" the issue of education financing.

In trademark style, Mr Murphy later laughed off the suggestion, saying: "I was positioning myself to try and duck the eggs".

They'll then try and hide by ducking behind some trash cans.

The batsman had three choices: to move but risk exposing his wicket, to play the ball with his bat and face being caught by a ring of close fielders, or try to duck and risk painful blows.

"Firefighter Cody Knecht got down in the drain to try and capture the ducks.

Don't be an idiot and try to duck under the turnstiles.

If a player is blocking your view of the ball, try to duck and dive so you can see around the player or through his legs, just try not to lose sight of the ball, it's very hard to stop the ball if you can't see it.

Not surprisingly, the euphoria of the first few years of democracy has given way to mounting impatience.Some of the country's politicians at times try to duck these and other issues by resorting to the lexicon of race.

You've got to stand on something to look over the lockers, somehow try to duck under and see people.

You may also try to duck around a corner and snipe them as they run around it to chase you.

She ran about two blocks to Newark Avenue, a busy commercial street, and tried to duck into a pizza shop, Larry and Joe's Pizza, about four blocks from the Hudson County Courthouse.