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Example sentences for "waddling"

Lexicographically close words:
wadded; waddies; wadding; waddle; waddled; wade; waded; wader; waders; wades
  1. He trudged out, stooping forward and waddling with the gait of a parrot ambling along on a pole; his projecting coat tail and his thin beak gave him a sort of avian look.

  2. He was pallid and his lips were blue when Emissary Orne came waddling into the office.

  3. Mrs. Newbolt; then looked at the wall paper, gay with prancing lambs and waddling ducks, and Noah's Ark trees.

  4. And toward spring, in spite of the cavorting lambs and waddling ducks in the little waiting, empty room upstairs, Eleanor yielded.

  5. That was easy to see," added the scout, in no degree conscious of having exhibited any extraordinary sagacity; "and a very different matter it was from a waddling horse!

  6. Ay, here are both your waddling beasts: this Huron travels like a white general.

  7. Loupe never went into anything more exciting than his waddling trot; though Daisy made him keep that up briskly.

  8. That little waddling fellow can be overtaken without any great difficulty.

  9. Pony got through his gallop, and subsided again to a waddling trot.

  10. And without another word to Daisy, Ransom sprang into the chaise, cracked his whip over Loupe's head and started him off in a very ungraceful but very eager waddling gallop.

  11. Portlaw was making considerable noise over the matter, running about distractedly with little, short, waddling steps.

  12. At that moment Tillie came waddling in, laid down her bundle of meat before Raftery and said-- "One bottle.

  13. An Indian squaw, nearly as broad as she was tall, came waddling out of the store as Miss Pearson stepped stiffly from the sleigh.

  14. Tillie, spilled from the sledge in the first mad rush of the team, came waddling up to Reivers and bowed down before him humbly.

  15. Return from this brilliant victory was celebrated by the war-chorus, until the appearance of an erkoom waddling over the ploughed land, again proved the signal for general pursuit.

  16. Waddling along on his shaky feet, he charged with lowered snout at the scared fowls, and so left Desiree at liberty to escape, and take the rabbits the few scraps of green stuff which she had so strenuously defended.

  17. As the party drew near, an enormous monster began waddling on its clawed feet toward them.

  18. For the waddling monster suddenly stopped short as if brought up sharply by the bars of a cage, and drew back.

  19. There he came, waddling round the corner of the farm.

  20. Johanna Pihl came waddling in at the gate up there.

  21. They were waddling birds that grotesquely marched across the snow, pecking as they went.

  22. But across the belt to the woods, I see the black winged birds, slowly flying and waddling over the ground.

  23. Yes--when we were close inshore we at last descried a large flock of geese waddling upward from the beach.

  24. Ten or twelve great weird faces glared upon us at once; the colossal creatures twisted themselves round with incredible celerity, and came waddling with lifted heads and hollow bellowings to the edge of the ice where we lay.

  25. And waddling toward him with a tread that caused the ground to quiver, was a mate to the hideous creature the Rogans had used to terrify Dex in the torture chamber.

  26. A bellowing hiss came from its gaping mouth, and it increased its pace to a thunderous, waddling rush.

  27. To the uninitiated, this cloth contraption stretched on hay-bale wire and sprucewood sticks, hauled out of its lair on its screakily protesting keel skid, looked more like some waddling antediluvian from the prehistoric past.

  28. When on the ground this contraption of wood and wires had seemed an ungainly, waddling freak.

  29. No more was said; but we know we shall soon see her solemnly waddling into the schoolroom, and we wonder what will happen.

  30. The opening of the door made a bell ring somewhere in the rear of the shop, and a fat, motherly old German woman came waddling to the front.

  31. He walks rather quick in the erect posture, but with a waddling gait, and is soon run down if, whilst pursued, he has no opportunity of escaping by climbing.

  32. When he walks in the erect posture he turns the leg and foot outwards, which occasions him to have a waddling gait and to seem bow-legged.

  33. Pendoggat dropped the paper suddenly, ran at a goose which was waddling across his court, captured the big strong bird, and wrung its neck.

  34. On land, the waddling gait of Ducks is anything but graceful, but in the water their appearance is alert and elegant.

  35. He came puffing down the steps and went waddling on his way.

  36. The cattleman jumped out from the machine and touched the fat man on the arm as he was waddling past.

  37. Flossy had lately taken to waddling away towards evening for a swim in the warm lake, and never came back without something in her mouth.

  38. So off they set, Veevee and Briton bounding and barking in front, and Flossy waddling behind.

  39. On he came, waddling at a great rate down the road.

  40. Presently I heard him give another growl, and directly afterwards I saw him waddling back again at a leisurely pace with something in his paws.


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