On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Ducking. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as hunt or hunting and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Ducking meaning
present participle and gerund of duck
Using Ducking
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of duck
- Useful related words include: duck hunting, hunt, hunting, submersion.
- In the example corpus, ducking often appears in combinations such as: ducking and, of ducking, ducking for.
Context around Ducking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ducking
- In this selection, "ducking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, frazer, forth, touch, low, ilja and serious stand out and add context to how "ducking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ducking and diving and a touch ducking his body. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ducking" sits close to words such as aapl, absolved and adaption, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ducking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An accurate throw leads to a ducking. (7 words)
Back and forth, Frazer ducking under, and we go to break! (11 words)
Nick is no smiles, says Darby has been ducking and dodging. (11 words)
Just minutes after talking and laughing with friends, some of whom never made it out of the bowling alley, Jordan said she was ducking for cover and trying in vain to shield her son’s eyes from the haunting sights around them. (42 words)
Harrowing video captured the moment gang members with automatic weapons opened fire in a south Florida neighborhood in what police say was a targeted attack that left locals ducking for cover in the middle of the night. (37 words)
Ducking and diving from Rooster (Miles Teller) at the start of the film, the teacher and the student with an ax to grind finally cross paths and the mood is understandably tense. (32 words)
Back and forth, Frazer ducking under, and we go to break! (11 words)
JD chokes him, back and forth, ducking Ilja’s hardest strikes but eventually right hands leave both men down and out on the mat! (24 words)
Example sentences (20)
An accurate throw leads to a ducking.
Back and forth, Frazer ducking under, and we go to break!
Ducking and diving was the order of the day in Lochfyneside last Saturday as one of the villages revived an ‘old classic’ to raise hundreds of pounds at its Easter fair.
He was kind of ducking low, so I didn’t really see him.
JD chokes him, back and forth, ducking Ilja’s hardest strikes but eventually right hands leave both men down and out on the mat!
Pulisic took a touch, ducking his body between two defenders, then turned and fired the ball below Josep Martinez - who dived too late.
The mother is then seen in footage from the officer’s body camera ducking and whisking her children to safety as the officer calls for back up.
Ducking and diving from Rooster (Miles Teller) at the start of the film, the teacher and the student with an ax to grind finally cross paths and the mood is understandably tense.
Harrowing video captured the moment gang members with automatic weapons opened fire in a south Florida neighborhood in what police say was a targeted attack that left locals ducking for cover in the middle of the night.
Just minutes after talking and laughing with friends, some of whom never made it out of the bowling alley, Jordan said she was ducking for cover and trying in vain to shield her son’s eyes from the haunting sights around them.
Nick is no smiles, says Darby has been ducking and dodging.
Surveillance shows 69-year old mother Diane ducking for cover and screaming for help as those eight individuals smash nearly every single case and ransack the shop.
That sent passengers scrambling to the rear of the car and ducking to protect themselves, in fear of gunfire.
The new Chancellor accused the previous government of ducking serious decisions, saying she was "angry".
At the same time, Morgan’s girlfriend Sandra Brown, a passenger in the vehicle, points something at the officer while ducking behind the front of the vehicle.
Bumrah capped an eventful day by facing 11 balls as the nightwatchman, ducking cleverly and blocking confidently to end with his wicket intact.
No movement is wasted, whether he's ducking bullets in a speeding Mercedes or leaping from a cliff.
Rival McGregor, despite having led calls for a stricter lockdown in Ireland, took to Twitter to call out Nurmagomedov for ducking Ferguson.
The best way to use binoculars is by simply poking out from behind cover, laying out the targets then ducking back down.
The skimming Phantoms climbed briefly to higher altitude so as to appear on Iraqi radars, before ducking back down to hit the deck.
Common combinations with ducking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- ducking and 9×
- of ducking 4×
- ducking for 4×
- ducking under 3×
- ducking his 3×
- and ducking 3×
- ducking behind 3×
- by ducking 3×
- while ducking 2×
- ducking back 2×