duck Význam & definice

Příklady duck

• She pointed out that with ducks there was a name for male and female.

• None of the justices "ducked" both of these claims - three of them decided against our position on the first and five on the second.

• The task was ducked, with only a couple of trite pages (pp. 164-5) on temptation, fear, contradictions, and cultural assumptions.

• Adult worms were obtained from chicks and ducks, but not from rats, mice and golden hamsters.

• In that setting, modernization theorists, precisely because they stood for the swiftest and most influential currents of the liberal tradition, were sitting ducks.

• Lame ducks were no longer connected electorally to their districts, making them unpredictable in terms of how they would behave.

• Students understood all this and acted upon it by constantly ducking classes or, worse, disrupting them.

• The prepatent period was similar in both chicks and ducks and varied between 9 and 14 (11.6 1.3) days.