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Example sentences for "duckboard"

Lexicographically close words:
ducibus; ducit; ducite; duck; duckbill; ducked; ducking; ducklings; ducks; duckweed
  1. The forward system was almost completely cut off by a vast sea of mud which extended back to and beyond the battery positions and was traversed at intervals by narrow duckboard tracks, the sole means of communication from front to rear.

  2. For four miles the path lay along a single duckboard track, capsized or slanting in many places, and the newly-made Nab Road, to which it led, was hardly better.

  3. At some 'posts' there was nothing better to sit on than the muddy 'fire-step' or at best half a duckboard or an old bomb box.

  4. Shell-holes and trenches everywhere filled with water till choice of movement was confined to a few duckboard tracks.

  5. Suddenly behind me there was a slither, a splash, and a smothered remark as the sergeant skidded from the duckboard into an especially dirty shell hole.

  6. As we were coming down the duckboard track after being relieved Jerry started to put over a barrage.

  7. It was about a mile from the line down a "beautiful" duckboard track.

  8. I could not see the duckboard in the dense gloom.

  9. I stamped on the duckboard and kicked the sides of the trench and jerked my rifle up and down just to keep myself awake.

  10. Heavy as the cable line duties were found, the laying of the duckboard track during the latter half of the week proved still more onerous.


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