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Example sentences for "wild goose"

  • Thus released, the Wild Goose swung around and made straight for a series of rocks which all had been working hard to avoid.

  • Some loose ice, floating along the lake shores, had partly choked the stream, but there was a clear place near the centre, and into this the Wild Goose drifted.

  • A stiff breeze sent them on their way down Lake Linderman, and all expressed themselves as well satisfied with the sailing qualities of the Wild Goose.

  • We're of the opinion it is all a wild goose chase so we're staying here.

  • If that was it, she wanted to know so she could send the Sheriff and his men here and be sure it was no wild goose chase.

  • It was all a wild goose chase," Janet greeted them, sinking into the first convenient chair.

  • I prefer the 'Wild Goose Chase'," said Anne.

  • An example can be found in the collection of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.

  • George had said last night be could kill a wild goose this A.

  • Duclos, who was in charge of the French trading post, placed himself and his house at my service, and our coming was celebrated by a dinner of wild goose, plum pudding, and coffee.

  • George said: "I do like to hear a wild goose call.

  • And why would you like to be a wild goose?

  • There were some interesting questions to ask, of course; but though bursting with curiosity as to why anyone should find it better to be a wild goose, or even a hummingbird, than a crow, the Babe sternly repressed himself.

  • In position 1 the tool side stands at 8-1/2 deg.

  • Over its coned body fits the shell B, which is split, as shown in Fig.

  • This occurs because the side of the cut is not at a right angle to the work axis, but at an angle the degree of which depends upon the rate of feed.

  • On a near approach, he perceived that its object was to take a wild goose, which had alighted on the water, and which was diving to avoid so powerful an enemy.

  • A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.

  • Defn: A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.

  • Wild goose chase, the pursuit of something unattainable, or of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose.

  • A wild goose chase, an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wild goose" 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:
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