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How to use quack in a sentence

33 example sentences · noun, verb, interjection

Quack means the vocalisation made by a duck. Example: “Did you hear that duck make a quack?”

Examples of quack by meaning

nounThe vocalisation made by a duck.

  • Did you hear that duck make a quack?

verbOf a duck, to make its characteristic vocalisation.

  • The more breadcrumbs I threw on the ground, the more they quacked.
  • Do you hear the ducks quack?

adjectiveFalsely presented as having medicinal powers.

  • Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!
  • When no certain cure exists, quack remedies tend to proliferate and the history of quackery and secret cures is full of extraordinary forms of treatment for the various arthritic disorders.1976 March 27, F. Dudley Hart, “History of the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, number 6012, →DOI...
  • Such "helpful" promotion is generally more "quack" than fraudulent in nature.1991, Journal of the Association of Food and Drug Officials, volume 55, York, Pa.: The Association, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 35

More sentences with quack

  • He hoped to get off the pharmacy of medications that quack put him on.From the entry pharmacy
  • If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck.From the entry quack like a duck
  • “Tell me, sir,” she says, “does this duckmole, does it quack?”2023, Kevin M. Miller, Wigs on the Green. From the entry duckmole
  • Used as a contact and alarm call, the muffled raab is like a muttered, husky quack.2019, Adrian Thomas, RSPB Guide to Birdsong, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry raab
  • If you quack like a duck, then you must be a duck.2000 February 1, “From the Electoral College”, in Agapé, volume 2, number 4, page 2. From the entry quack like a duck
  • Drawn-out "rhaeb" calls by the male; a variety of quacks by the female.1996, D. & L. Stokes, Stokes Beginner's Guide to Birds: Eastern Region, →OCLC, page 59. From the entry rhaeb
  • So, did quacks cash in on this, fanfaring their own capacity to quell pain?1989, Roy Porter, Health for Sale: Quackery in England, 1660-1850, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry fanfare
  • That quack doctor for the clap used to be stuck up in all the greenhouses.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 8: Laestrygonians]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey]…. From the entry greenhouse
  • The Doctor says that some of the quackiest of the quacks are in the army.1919, Oral Hygeine, volume 9, page 921. From the entry quacky
  • Males give a variety of raspy raab calls; females quack.2017, Stephen Kress, Elissa Wolfson, Pocket Birds of North America, Eastern Region, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry raab
  • Some years later, this “obscure quack” attained permanent nonobscurity when the procedure bearing his name became world famous, saving many lives.2015 July 9, “Letters: Jacob Lawrence’s Champion”, in New York Times. From the entry nonobscurity
  • Others wryly illustrate appropriated audios, like instructions for quacking like a duck or a letter from an angry airline passenger.2009 April 17, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry audio
  • This was not just another quack cure.2008, New Scientist and Science Journal - Volume 199, Issues 2663-2670. From the entry liquid oxygen
  • Drake Mallards do not quack like hens.2008, L. Elliott, K. Colver, R. Moore, The Calls of Ducks and Geese, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry rhaeb
  • There were ducks everywhere, on the desk and mantelpiece and padding around on the floor, knocking things over and quacking indignantly.2000, Tanya David; Dennis Pepper, comp., “Dogends”, in The New Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry hoover
  • For weeks, he led all the other kids in a chorus of quacks whenever Daphne appeared, but she ignored them.1983, Mary Downing Hahn, Daphne's Book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 5. From the entry daffy
  • He is a medicine man or a witch doctor, native healer or voodoo sorcerer—the "quack," so to speak, never the "doctor."1982, Sudhir Kakar, “Other Shamans”, in Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions, New…. From the entry witch doctor
  • The crocus of this novel is gusty Professor Louis Delfontaine, quack doctor, showman, charlatan and man of parts.1937, Neil Bell, Crocus. From the entry crocus
  • Much of this extraction was conducted by itinerant quacks or jacks-of-all-trades who did it as a side line to their business.1929, Howard W[ilcox] Haggard, “‘In Sorrow Thou shalt Bring forth Children’”, in Devils, Drugs, and Doctors: The Story of the Science of…. From the entry jack of all trades
  • Skull-caps and alchemical paraphernalia surrounded the seventeenth-century quack, whereas his nineteenth-century equivalent might appear top-hatted and suited, evidently a person of learning and ‘quality’.2003, Jonathan Swan, Quack Magic: The Dubious History of Health Fads and Cures, Ebury Press, →ISBN. From the entry suited
  • DSP can also eliminate ghost images from TV screens and banish those irritating Donald Duck squeaks and quacks from speeded-up playback of tape-recorded voice messages.1992 April, Gene Bylinsky, “A U.S. Comeback in Electronics”, in Fortune, volume 125, number 8, page 77. From the entry Donald Duck
  • The chief beneficiary of Marber’s approach is the local quack, who not only acts as a cynical marriage-broker but himself hilariously proposes to a snuff-taking spinster.2015 July 29, Michael Billington, “Three Days in the Country review – Marber ups the comedy and plays down the psychology”, in The…. From the entry marriage-broker
  • Is an infant who delights in such repetitive actions as swatting a brightly colored mobile or making a toy duck quack engaging in planful or intentional behavior?2013, David R. Shaffer, Katherine Kipp, Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence, page 207. From the entry planful
  • She was intelligent but not clever; drawn to quack doctors, numerologists, astrologists; she also knew that the ghost of Abraham Lincoln was constantly aprowl in the White House.1995, Gore Vidal, “FDR: Love on the Hudson”, in Virgin Islands, London: André Deutsch, published 1997, page 123. From the entry aprowl
  • I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.1943, Ted W. Lawson, Bob Considine, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo. From the entry horse around
  • Today if we should see a physician on the highway a-la-Prince Albert, surtopped by a plug hat, we should almost immediately regard him as a “quack.”1927, Your Health: A National Health Magazine, volume 8, page 713. From the entry surtop
  • More frequently, a mangubat, or folk medicine specialist, otherwise known as a quack doctor, will first attempt to cure the person through the use of folk religion, and special charms.1967, Antonio G. Manuud, Brown Heritage: Essays on Philippine Culture Tradition and Literature. From the entry mangubat

Meaning of quack

  1. noun The vocalisation made by a duck.
  2. verb Of a duck, to make its characteristic vocalisation.
  3. verb To make a sound similar to the quack of a duck.

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Questions about quack in a sentence

How do you use quack in a sentence?
Quack is used as a noun, verb and interjection. For example: “Did you hear that duck make a quack?”
What is a short sentence with quack?
“Do you hear the ducks quack?”
What does quack mean?
Quack means the vocalisation made by a duck.

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