ducks
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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I watch a family of ducks dart in and out of the reeds along the shoreline, next to the dock.
From Literature
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On the Chesapeake Bay, market hunters favored punt guns—cannons weighing up to 200 pounds, with barrels made from boiler pipe—that could bring down 100 ducks with one shot.
We’d often visit our family farm, where my extended family raised pigs, ducks, chickens and whatnot.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s also been found in wild birds and killed millions of commercial chickens, geese and ducks.
From Los Angeles Times
"I hate any kind of pollution to be honest, there's blue and green algae here, there's bird flu, ducks and swans dying."
From BBC
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