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Sentence Examples She was nearly as wide as she was tall, and waddled like a duck when she walked. Once known as the Bulldozer, he increasingly looks like a lame duck instead. The Department of Homeland Security, most observers agree, has been a lame duck, a victim of the rush of resources to Iraq. It was ever a lame duck, and throwing money at it to save votes and curry favour with trade unions was never going to work. Yet, without strong and committed patrons, there is a real danger that he could become an ineffectual lame duck quite soon. Instead we seem inescapably on course to end up with a lame duck park, with a mangled boundary and pitifully truncated planning powers. The legs are salted to pull out excess moisture, then stewed slowly in more duck fat flavoured with herbs. Poultry shears cut through the bones of chicken, duck, and other birds without the carving wrestle. Try the slices of duck in white wine, for example, at 120 baht or Thai red curry or Indian chicken korma for 80 baht. In particular searches have been made for the kiwi, blue duck, yellow head and the South Island kokako. They've constructed loon, goose, and duck nesting platforms as well as wood duck and bluebird houses. Plans are in place for wood duck houses, blue bird houses, and swallow houses. I just realized that our wood duck box had hooded mergansers in it and our bluebird boxes are full of swallows. In April 2002, the team built and placed a number of bluebird and wood duck nest boxes. Also, after reading the book and the emails posted above I agree that the egg is a hooded merganser egg and not a wood duck egg. The eerie squeal of a wood duck came from somewhere behind the gray tangle of naked oaks, willows cypress, elm, tupelo and cottonwood. A traditional raffle with a dozen prizes such as brace of pheasant, duck, woodcock or rabbit, was held to raise funds for new cages. Then in time, there's the same child handling the same duck like a pussycat! Stumped for a good red wine capable of accompanying duck served with a bitter cherry sauce? He sat up, examined my face, winked, and dressed quickly to duck out of the room for a wash, down the hall. Show More Sentences In fact, it reminded me of a pintail duck in the way its primaries, the ten outermost feathers of the wing, seemed to do all the flying. For instance, a window treatment might include mesh sheer panels with soft, pliable sheared duck draperies, and a scarf in a high-twist fabric. Yet I had ordered duck pie, alamode beef and soused hog's face as well, apart from the kickshaws. Fly-fishing and white-water rafting disrupted the sensitive Harlequin duck breeding grounds, thus permanently closing the river to human use. We started with an appetizer of duck ravioli which sounds scarier than it was. You're likely to see waders as well as a variety of herons, stilts, and even the endangered West Indian whistling duck. The central character of the book is Bunny Maguire, who is launched into the Dublin social whirl and takes to it like a duck to water. The linguini with roasted duck, rapini, and white wine sauce was maybe my second-favourite dish of the meal, after the gnocchi. I last saw her duck diving into the crystalline blue waters of the Adriatic, I didn't see her surface. Tim Bresnan was run out for a duck, before Lumb holed out to Bilal Shafayat on the long-on boundary. There is a 17 th-century French recipe for wild duck cooked in a ragout flavoured with mushrooms, truffles and chocolate. The second lifted alarmingly off a length but was down the leg side and Bradman was able to duck and let it past. Then, as the duck draws its foot forward and brings the toes together, the web folds up so there is less resistance to the water. The combination worked well in the duck blind, and was great for goose and turkey hunting. In a 1998 speech, Gore likened opposition to affirmative action to a duck blind. I began to scan the lake, and I could see the duck blind on the opposite shore. Then Mary started to throw things and he had to duck and weave to avoid the homemade missiles. The document reveals that the bishop's menu would have included a range of meats, from mutton and beef to veal, geese, rabbit, duck and lamb. Throughout our period various breeds of birds were used to supply different quills, including duck, goose, swan and pheasant. Therefore, we can all go to the wedding, then duck down to the hotel bar or similar watering hole to view the game. Show More Sentences A modest duck pond becomes exciting when one realizes that not all waterfowl are Mallards and Canada Geese. And practiced duck hunters occasionally kill waterfowl over 80 yards away with a 12 gauge shotgun. The black-headed duck most often parasitizes other waterfowl and marsh-nesting birds. Another new duck for us was the exquisite Harlequin Duck, a waterfowl rarely spotted close to shore. Bags I the dummy, Bags I the cot, Bags I the rubber duck the other baby's got. The principal game birds of Britain are grouse, partridge, pheasant, plus woodcock, pigeon, quail, and various wild duck and marsh fowl. He may as well have quacked like a duck, because I don't hear a word he's saying. Internet pages reveal phone conversations with journalists that consist of MacIsaac quacking like a duck before he hangs up. Yet, in case after case, the chicken always ended up dead, while the duck went happily quacking down the river. This is an interesting link for anyone who was wondering about those duck quacks. But even from the vague hints he throws out, I think we may rest assured it will not be the last quack of a lame duck. There are also chunky crab cakes with cranberry, duck and pork rillettes on crisp French bread, Atlantic prawns and celeriac remoulade with a topping of caviar. Perhaps the deep-pocketed corporation was the real victim, some grotesque combination of sitting duck and cash cow? I'm sorry to say that it's not true about the quack of a duck. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, is it still a duck? If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's not a swan. Smaller, richer-tasting meats such as pheasant, duck, partridge, pigeon, even diminutive quail are increasingly finding their way onto my Christmas table. Instead of a corsage, he brought me a plastic duck he'd stolen from a chi chi's restaurant. My particular historical vantage point is a product of my upbringing as that odd duck, a native Washingtonian whose parents were not in government. They retreated back to a duck blind, and watched to see what would happen. Show More Sentences The six year old gelding took to jumping fences like a duck to water. The recommendation of the duck proved to have been justified. Pembroke river is described as a refuge for wildlife. Thousands of birds feed on the mud flats during the winter and in the summer shell duck nest and rear their young here. Typical fare on offer includes dishes made from fish, duck, game and boar. And, really, the only bright spot of yesterday for United, who are fast slipping into pre-McCall woefulness, was that they broke their duck against Hearts. But with this pope still up and about, and a lame duck at that, the old sense of decorum may not apply. The wood duck was joined by Mallard and American Black Duck, as well as the usual Great Egret, Double-crested Cormorant, Canada Goose, and Mute Swan. I thought to myself that the top of this hen didn't look like a female woody to me, but then again I have never really looked at a hen wood duck from this angle. White-tailed deer, beaver, and red fox are content with just about any vegetation and width, whereas wild turkey and wood duck prefer forested buffers over 35 feet wide. Specialties here include the magnificent hooded merganser, the rainbow-coloured wood duck, as well as lesser scaup, bufflehead and common goldeneye. National Wildlife Refuges have also helped some seriously depleted populations of birds and mammals, including beaver, wood duck, sea otter, and dozens of shorebirds. Little knobs of teal, our smallest native duck, appear out of nowhere. The lamb fillet did indeed have the redolence of India, while the duck managed to retain its own flavour, enhanced by the Grand Marnier and pinenuts. The president and his advisors want to duck responsibility by claiming, in so many words, that the Louisiana authorities didn't fill out the right forms. Then from the pan came perogies of duck and red cabbage, in an orange butter sauce, as delicate and tasty as Chinese dim sum. The seawater was higher than the fire hydrants, and the firefighters had to duck down into it to connect the hose. One source close to RBOS told this newspaper the bank was not interested in buying a lame duck bank to further its ambitious strategy in the Irish market. He would be a lame duck and he does not need that sort of hassle. The phrase lame duck was being bandied about to describe the manager, though since he had banned all contact with the press, never in his earshot. It is an emergency response programme to bird species that are endangered, such as the orange fronted kakariki, whio or blue duck, and yellowhead. Show More Sentences Often clouds of black skimmers, yellowlegs and a half-dozen species of sandpipers would wheel over our duck decoys, occasionally alighting right in the middle of them. The loon, the size of a large duck or small goose, resembles these birds in shape when swimming. Faroese domestic breed include Faroe pony, Faroe cow, Faroe sheep, Faroese goose and Faroese duck. He would have finished with an average of over 100 runs per innings if he had not been dismissed for a duck in his last Test. After enjoying the aromas for a few hours, you'll be left with delicious sweet and sour red cabbage and meltingly soft duck on top. Beef, lamb, and duck were employed, but a majority of the time it was the magpie that was the main ingredient. The Laysan duck is the only native species to date ever granted eligibility under this provision. The Loch of Harray can host up to 10,000 wintering duck and is important for pochard. Be prepared to slip and duck his jab to infight or to counter with a quick punch to the head or body. Whooping cranes could have gone the way of the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet and the Labrador duck. From rib eye steak to confit of duck, its chefs take pride in all its freshly-cooked offerings. Huge populations of the sea duck, common scoter, spend winters feeding in shallow waters off eastern Ireland, Lancashire and North Wales. The start is critical to the race's outcome. Racers run on their skates, lurching toward the first turn with a furious duck walk. The lame duck at the top of the state government is having a pretty good run. I'm not sure, but judging by the duck farts I heard in there, you don't want to use it right now. Aircraft struck virtually every species of waterfowl, including one Eurasian wigeon, one harlequin duck and a Barrow's goldeneye. After a bad day of duck hunting nothing goes down better than a good duck fart. A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly. So far this year, twitchers have been lucky enough to see a North American lesser scaup duck in Cardiff Bay. Uncle Esau is as cranky as hell, and a peculiar old duck, but I think he'll like a fine upstanding young man as big as you be. Show More Sentences Dinner can be barbecued beef ribs eaten on the patio of the Main Street Grill or cherried duck at the Black Cat, a cozy fireplace-lit bistro. Yuanyang, the Mandarin duck, mates for life, and is hence a symbol of conjugal felicity. There's beef with green peppers and black bean sauce, duck in orange sauce, chicken in Thai green curry, steam bean curds in soya sauce. With duck season upon us, this is a fine and, at 298 pages, exhaustive primer on waterfowling basics. Migrant birds like cursoirus cursor, gull, starling, blackbird, duck, waterhen and sand grouse. Featured are cardinal, turtle, otter, fox, raccoon, deer, duck, bobcat, rabbit, skunk, flying squirrel, waterthrush, and black bear babies. Combine ringing hails, raspy greeters, pleading comebacks and ultra-realistic feed chuckles and you have the Open Water Wing Nutz duck call. Her Crispy Mix appetizer pairs wax moth larvae with thin, inch-long slivers of potato cooked in duck fat and sprinkled with agave worm salt. A black-bellied whistling duck, ensconced in a hollow palm trunk, squealed a few notes of surprise as we passed. Giving us company were various parts of various sea creatures, from fish maw to duck gizzard. Some, like the wood duck, are helped by work right here in the Sunshine State, as Hitchcock's photographs illustrate. But during a quick search of the home, police found a soot-covered wood duck. Volunteers also identified a North Amercian wood duck, which has multicoloured iridescent plumage and red eyes. His service project, completed for Oregon Fish and Wildlife, involved building 12 wood duck nesting boxes to replace old ones. Manistee Hydro employees maintain and monitor 30 bluebird boxes, 30 wood duck boxes and four American kestrel boxes. A male duck is called a drake and the female is called a duck, or in ornithology a hen. The duck is the spokescreature for Aflac, formally the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus. The politician sidetracked the reporter with a story about duck hunting instead of a direct response to the question that was asked. He ran back and picked up a dead bird that had fallen. It was not a duck but a shag. Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios, like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger. Show More Sentences Two boys, aged 14 and 11, were each sentenced to three strokes of the light rotan at Kluang for stealing duck eggs from Loh Wee Seng. Each year, on Easter Monday, a duck race is organised by the local mountain rescue team to raise funds. Back in his kitchen he rustles up Queen of Puddings with raspberry jam and custard and roasted confit of duck with marmalade jus and cider. The men did not eat human flesh, but rather sheep, lamb, duck, pigeons, and deer, and cooked the meat. Because of the president's lame duck status, the presidency was often hampered by congressional actions. Plain white paulins, made of duck without seams. Furnished with snaps and rings or grommets. The Labrador duck was a common bird on the Canadian coast until the 19th century, but is now extinct. The duck is also the nickname of the University of Oregon sports teams as well as the Long Island Ducks minor league baseball team. This led to the duck becoming the nickname and mascot for the eventual National Hockey League professional team Anaheim Ducks. The Call duck has also received a place as the world's smallest domestic duck breed, as it weighs less than 1kg. Divers are aquatic birds the size of a large duck, to which they are unrelated. The park is one of Australia's chief refuges for several bird species, including the Burdekin duck and magpie goose. Nothing to do with actual duck, these little treats are anatine in name only. Our traditional South African version is the Osturducken, an ostrich stuffed with turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken. Stephen Salter's 1974 invention became known as Salter's duck or nodding duck, although it was officially referred to as the Edinburgh Duck. Harbor seals have been recorded to attack, kill and eat several kinds of duck. Other nonvegetarian items include chicken, duck, squab, snails, silkworms, insects, goat, pork, venison, turtle, monitor lizard, etc. Right from the off, Auntie's bloomers blew all over the windy links as they jumped the shark and didn't seem to give a duck. This lad Kelley is an odd duck in many ways.... Unlike most college youngsters, he has no hobbies. I wanted to try razor clams, there was a duck salad that looked good, and I also fancied the mussel chowder. Show More Sentences The park is one of the chief refuges in Australia for several species, among them the magpie goose, green pygmy-goose and Burdekin duck. Limicorallus, meanwhile, was initially believed to be a rail or a dabbling duck by some. This looks at the place's real stars, the Arctic fox, the Eider duck and Viking horses. At FairPrice, demand for mock meats like mock duck and chicken has risen by 5 per cent in the past year. We will soak the sauce with corn bread made with duck bacon bits. Three species of steamer duck are almost flightless, however. Most specks harvested in Arkansas are likely taken on a passing shot while a waterfowler is duck hunting, given that specks frequent the same fields as puddle ducks. At the left a man stands on the bank of a marsh seemingly holding up a long spear on which is impaled a fish and a duck represented just above the fish. Both fish are bultis. Whooper swans, shovelers and teals, mallard, wigeon, goldeneye and sometimes pink footed geese, as well as breeding tufted duck, inhabit the area. New Zealand new cap Mitchell McClenaghan had Richard Levi caught at slip for a duck, bowling a wicket maiden at the start of the South African innings. Other local breeds include the Shetland sheep, cow, goose, and duck. Another moonlighting protein, delta 2 crystallin in the duck eye lens is the same protein as the ubiquitous urea cycle enzyme arginosuccinate lyase. The females of the larger subspecies are capable of taking large and powerful game birds such as the largest of duck species, pheasant, and grouse. Listen out for the residents such as Cetti's warblers and water rails and see overwintering wildfowl such as tufted duck, pochard, gadwall and goldeneye. It shows the duck pond at Norton in the summer of 1968 with dozens of children in their bathing costumes, paddling and splashing around in the cool water. If you get any taller, you'll start having to duck through doorways! Last week the group spotted a wood duck which is a very rare duck. The Burdekin duck is also large, and bronze and white in colour. They are found in large numbers on the River Burdekin, from which they derive their name. This is most popular in upscale restaurants in San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato and can include dishes such as tuna with chili peppers and duck with mesquite honey. I'm just going to duck into the loo for a minute, can you hold my bag? Show More Sentences Thus, your best options are the Peking duck toasted sesame dumpling soup that is served with plum sauce or the Chinese cuisine staple, Won Ton soup. Students in a pre-kindergarten class in southern Louisiana learn about how local residents are working together to sustain the wood duck populations of the Atchafalaya Basin. I tried to duck under the ball, but it was definitely an ugly finder. In Northumberland the eider duck is known as the cuddy duck. Meat consumption includes chicken, beef, mutton, venison, duck and squab. The fact of this made him realize he had a story. He livened. Father was washed overboard, Rupert said. He was going through the water like a duck. She started skating and learned quickly, like a duck takes to water. Fegatini for me, which is chicken livers and bacon in a mushroom sauce to you, and antra, aromatic duck with salad and hoi sin sauce, for my companion. Then I'd have liked to have seen a Labrador duck or a Great Auk. The superficial sexual trigger, honed in the forest and out on the savanna, is why men still duck out of chat rooms and keep going back to the superbabes and vixens. I always wear long pants, sturdy leatherwork shoes, a canvas duck apron, a safety glove on my wood-holding hand, and a leather thumb protector on my tool-holding hand. Dennis and I saw turkey and deer tracks on the sand bars, a hen wood duck with hatchlings, numerous black-belly whistling ducks in the tree cavities. Wakey wakey, this duck egg blue alarm clock will liven up bedside tables. Prawn and sesame toast, prawn and water chestnut wontons and vegetable spring rolls, egg fried rice, chicken and cashew nuts and duck in plum sauce. That would normally bode well for Senate passage, except the lame duck session will have some much more contentious, much bigger issues taking up its very limited time. If you are a married woman over 45 and are thinking of taking a plunge into the job market bear in mind that you won't be an odd duck in the employment pool. The XLR5 Waterfowler, clad in Max-S, is built for the lady duck hunter. They have branded Mr Hunt a lame duck and Mr Cameron is widely expected to ditch his Culture Secretary in a reshuffle after Mr Hunt has overseen the Olympic Games. One thing I hope people have seen in this lame duck is, I am persistent. Examples from Classical Literature The trout, or the wild duck, or the sea bass is only an innocent excuse to be alone with the Infinite. If the book is very heavy, it would be wise to line the back with duck or a flesher rather than with Canton flannel. The canvasback duck is so called from the appearance of the feathers on the back. The canvasback is superior in flavor to any other species of wild duck, and is much esteemed. When I have a canvasback duck before me I dont think of anything else while its there. I have occasionally found a dead duck beneath the ice or floating in the water of a salt-hole. We wasted an hour and a quarter over that dead duck down under, and now I'm expected to go rubbin' my back all round the Pole. The little man got a long stick, and, reaching it out, drew the dead duck to the bank. We wasted half an hour fussing over that dead duck down under, and now I'm expected to go rubbin' my back all round the Pole. I glided forward, and came near shooting the Quartermaster, who sat in a bunch of sedge-grass, with a dead duck by his side. For desk work, make drawings of the duck when swimming, flying, and standing. Later collecting showed that the duck inhabited also the islands of Saipan and Tinian. Saw the sawbill duck once or twice riding down on a log and fired twice, unsuccessfully. Yet here he was locked up in their tin-can of a jail, as good as a dead duck. Very often a duck is baked, especially to make a salmis with it. It was too much, I fancied, even for the most aquatically inclined duck. He was just about to duck the little one a second time when Will arrived. I decided to become a dedicated duck hunter, and my whiskerless ingenuity kicked in to help me. He wore a duck shooting-jacket, the pockets of it bulging as if with game. He lent me some duck things of his own, for those I had worn in the boat had been thrown overboard. Show More Sentences You'd sure be a dead duck long before we crossed the border, my boy! If a Heinkel or an Me 110 showed up, the old girl would be a dead duck. A name in the Orkneys for the golden-eyed duck, anas clangula. While this was passing, a duck came quacking up and cried out, 'You thieving vagabonds, what business have you in my grounds? Dab-Dab, the duck, used to keep herself cool by jumping into the sea and swimming behind the ship. We could have mock-turtle soup, a sole, curry, and roast duck. The logger-headed duck of South America can only flap along the surface of the water, and has its wings in nearly the same condition as the domestic Aylesbury duck. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of duck? Words that rhyme with duck What is the past tense of duck? What is the plural of duck? What is the adjective for duck? What is the noun for duck? Translations for duck Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words duchy duchies duchesses duchesse Duchess duchess Duck duckbill duck-billed duckboard duckboards ducked 4-letter Words Starting With d du duc