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Example sentences for "lame duck"

  • Once on a time Irene had been her greatest friend, and now she was a 'lame duck,' such as must appeal to June's nature!

  • He was a "lame duck" now, and on her conscience.

  • Winifred had forgotten that behind conduct lies the main trend of character; or, in other words, omitted to remember that Fleur was now a "lame duck.

  • To waddle out of Change alley as a lame duck; a term for one who has not been able to pay his gaming debts, called his differences, on the Stock Exchange, and therefore absents himself from it.

  • At this disenchanted moment a lame duck of her own breed was welcome to June, so homoeopathic by instinct.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lame duck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    apply the; catch him; could not have told; during that; equal thickness; five parasangs; inexhaustible supply; interrogative pronoun; its position; lame duck; lost brother; mission station; offered upon the altar; other days; second vice; should remain; sugar and; sweet savour; then boil; till noon; what period; woman whom