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Example sentences for "buck"

Lexicographically close words:
buccaneer; buccaneering; buccaneers; buccra; buchu; buckboard; buckboards; bucked; bucket; bucketful
  1. I led him under a tree and told him to buck up.

  2. He now sounded a warning to the cows, and they all lifted their heads instantly and sniffed as the buck had done.

  3. A fine buck with antlers spreading far from each side of his head, jumped about as if worked by springs.

  4. When the hunter had secured his prize, the carcass of the buck deer, he began to follow the trail of the Red Doe, and soon stumbled upon the little helpless fawn.

  5. Was it the cracking of a twig at last, or did the buck catch the man scent?

  6. Stay right where you are," counselled Cap'n Buck in a half whisper.

  7. A beautiful buck stood drinking in the stream.

  8. That night she made her door doubly secure with additional thongs of rawhide cut from the pelt of the buck she had slain the day that she met Obergatz.

  9. The woman had wrapped the pieces of the buck in the hide and this she now raised and threw across her shoulder.

  10. The buck leaped high, landed upon the bank of the stream, and fell dead.

  11. You saw me kill this buck and you have said truthfully that no one will ever know what we do here.

  12. Joe, after the buck had made one or two plunges in the snow, his sharp hoofs piercing through the crust on the surface, and with much struggling extricated himself and stood trembling, and looked imploringly at his foe.

  13. Sneak, leaping like a wild buck down the path, and paying no further attention to the piteous lamentations of his comrade.

  14. He now blew his horn, which was answered by a blast from Glenn, who soon came up to announce his own success in bringing down the largest buck in the party, and to congratulate his man on his truly remarkable achievement.

  15. An Elk is a gigantic buck whose radiating antlers are so fern-like that a genus has appropriately been designated the Elk fern.

  16. The buck was seemingly associated with Puck, for it was popularly supposed that a spectre appeared periodically in Herne's Oak at Windsor headed with the horns of a buck.

  17. A buck flung up his head and sniffed toward the hidden danger.

  18. With so much at stake Tom felt for the second time in his life the palsy that goes with buck fever.

  19. A second buck had fallen, risen, run fifty yards, and come to earth again.

  20. It's all in the day's work to buck blizzards and starve and freeze, though I wouldn't be surprised if our systems were pretty well fed up with grief before we caught Mr. Bully West.

  21. You can't buck the Union Jack any more than you could Uncle Sam.

  22. Is it anything like buck fever when you are trying to shoot at an animal?

  23. All the buck is soaked out of me," wailed the fat boy.

  24. A number of vigorous bucks, however, must be kept with any considerable herd of does, for a single buck can not serve an unlimited number.

  25. The buck made its escape, and Vandever was not seriously injured in any particular.

  26. By this time the buck was evidently becoming tired, and certain of being overtaken; and, having reached a shallow place in the river, he turned upon the dogs and stood at bay.

  27. To his great surprise, however, the buck suddenly sprung to his feet and made a tremendous rush at the hunter with a view of throwing him off the ledge.

  28. On seeing the buck drop, he took it for granted that he was about to die, when he approached the animal for the purpose of cutting its throat.

  29. On another occasion he had fired at a large buck near the brow of a precipice some thirty feet high, which hangs over one of the pools in the Tallulah river.

  30. Vanderhorst now asked Witherspoon, "What distance would you choose as the surest to strike with buck shot?

  31. As Marion's men fired with either a ball and buck shot, or heavy buck shot alone, and as none would aim at horses, the loss of the British must have been great.

  32. Early in the morning we set out, and walked forty-five miles the first day, during which the Indians killed several fine fat buck deer.

  33. But you couldn't buck the Board--and keep your license and so have a means of staying in space.

  34. Buck could bear all sorts of jeering, Jibes and jokes in silence hearing; But this insult roused such anger, Nature couldn't stand it longer.

  35. Illustration] Soon it proved poor Buck had brought a Dreadful belly-ache from the water.

  36. Real fat ones they were, too, and one of them was a seven-year-old buck with horns that were worth having.

  37. Corry had aimed too well, and the buck had been too near; and it was hardly necessary for the dogs to pull down their game.

  38. Porter thought he had never before seen any thing half so exciting, but the buck went by like a flash.

  39. The buck was down already, but he rolled clean over now.

  40. That big buck was within an inch of making an end of me when Vosh came up and shot him.

  41. Before the buck could regain his feet, his fierce pursuers were upon him with savage snarls, and his race for life was over.

  42. He forgot to mention that the fight with the buck was all his own fault, for he began it; but the story helped Susie out of her bit of soft-heartedness, and it made Mrs. Stebbins hold her head up amazingly.

  43. The lawyer was urging the architect to "buck up.

  44. Remember the old saying, 'It's better to have tried to buck the line, and failed, than never to have tried at all.

  45. My posture was not the best for such exercise; nevertheless it permitted me to do the work, and he went over without word or groan, even as I have seen a buck fall to the rifle when the ball sang straight to the heart.

  46. I have dropped a buck through forest limbs fifty feet farther.

  47. Buck became aware that for some time he had been staring unseeingly at a folded paper, tucked partly under his bunk blanket.

  48. He paused now and finally decided to thrust his company upon Buck for the evening; in his opinion Buck would be all the better for company.

  49. Buck waved his hand in acknowledgment, then he smiled again on his opponent.

  50. An' I 'd like for Buck Peters to tell Frenchy's brother as I takes back what I said agin' him.

  51. Seems like Buck Peters might be in a hurry," observed Slick Milligan, sufficiently interested to come from behind the bar and walk out onto the porch.

  52. Buck ate slowly, his thoughts far more occupied with the problem than with the food.

  53. Why, I said as how I would to all yore boys, but I reckon mebby Buck needs me worse'n you do.

  54. When left alone Buck stared out of the window, not noticing that the storm had ceased, burning with rage at his absolute helplessness.

  55. Buck had gauged them all in that one glance.

  56. Buck was attempting feeble remonstrance when Rose returned from her survey of the timber available and swiftly placed her hands over his lips.

  57. He glanced at Buck as if expecting a reply.

  58. Buck had to be in Wayback at the earliest possible moment and I was fortunate enough to overtake him.

  59. He was a gentleman, as Buck had instantly realized, and he could make time pass very rapidly under most conditions.

  60. Bud shot a young buck elk, which they ate for supper, when they went into camp for the night at the foot of Three Tree Mountain.

  61. A buck says that there won't be a cloud in the sky at the end of a couple of hours," Dawson said.

  62. A savage leer twisted his thick lips back over his buck teeth.

  63. Every time one of those mechanics put a bag of mail aboard, or a case of those medical supplies we're taking over, I had a brief moment of feeling positive that he was a Japrat, buck teeth, and all.

  64. I could not help smiling when one of our fellows, in response to a cry of "Buck up, boys of the bull-dog breed!

  65. Soon a few more chums came in, somewhat beery, and commenced to buck him up.

  66. Then you'd better buck up and get one, if you're going to be a detective.

  67. Yes,' said the Bishop, 'you must buck up.

  68. If you buck up next cricket season, it's quite possible that you'll get colours of some sort.

  69. Buck up, and take an intelligent interest in things.

  70. Was not my muti in the buck with its fawn that saved thee from the pursuing impi by showing no alarm, even as the muti upon thy neck saved thee when Umzilikazi lay prone and stupified?

  71. Then the leader explained how he had allowed two of his followers to wander into the Ghost Valley in pursuit of a buck they had wounded.

  72. And going to shoot," said Oliver, raising his piece, and firing back both barrels rapidly, the buck shot with which they were charged breaking through the leaves and twigs and eliciting a savage yell.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.