Example Sentences

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“I understand why some people downtown will duck into an alleyway,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2020

Till then, I will duck into the past, into the black and white, where the good in us, played by Barrymore, stares up at the leering gangster, Edward G. Robinson, unafraid.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2020

Then Morris will duck back inside the stadium, head to the visitor’s locker room and change into his No. 46 jersey with a Dallas Cowboys star on each shoulder.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2016

"We're going to get a cultural divide here pretty quickly," says Greg Strimple, a Republican pollster based in Boise, Idaho, who predicts Obama will duck the issue as long as possible.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2013

The Territorial may sing himself hoarse with his prayer to fall like a soldier, but when the bullets begin to wail around him, it is a thousand to one that he will duck his head.

From Essays in Rebellion by Nevinson, Henry W.