How to Use canard in a Sentence

canard

noun

• The book repeats some of history's oldest canards.
• The canard that math is racist has been around for a while.
  — Kenin M. Spivak, National Review, 16 Sep. 2021
• This is, of course, a canard tossed in the last week of the year, with the House now out of session.
  — Jeff Bewkes, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2020
• This gives the lie to that canard about which fork to use being a snobbish etiquette test.
  — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
• All of the familiar pro and con gun canards will be offered.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• One canard about immigrants is that many come for the comforts of the welfare state.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2022
• There's also a small fin, called a canard, near the front of the spaceship, which helps in-flight stability.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2018
• That’s the great canard of any sports stadium campaign.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 22 Feb. 2018
• Canard a la presse: Blood is the lynchpin of canard a la presse, the signature dish at Otto's in London.
  — Thomas Page, CNN, 30 May 2017
• Fans of Dimes’s broccoli melt may blink hard at Corner Bar’s canard à l’orange and terrine of foie gras with riesling gelée.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• Trotting out the canard that married priests would mean less abuse isn’t just ignorant.
  — Ed Condon, National Review, 31 July 2022
• Soul music is playing in the background as the students take orders for Cuisse de canard and Paupiettes de mérou.
  — cleveland, 26 Nov. 2019
• But the bar has clung to the privacy canard as an excuse for obstructing access.
  — Mercury News Editorial Board, The Mercury News, 9 May 2017
• But Rushdie buys into the tired liberal canard that posits that liberals are the ones going out on a limb to speak truth to power.
  — Michael Washburn, National Review, 13 June 2021
• The canard soon appeared in a couple of college student newspapers -- and took off from there.
  — oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2019
• As in the ancient world, the blood libel and other canards about the anti-human can be applied to any enemy.
  — John-Paul Pagano, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019
• The worst canard surrounding the Four Freedoms concerns the Freedom from Want picture.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 June 2019
• The report didn’t get a whole lot of attention and isn’t likely to change many, if any, minds among those who have bought into Trump’s canard that the election was stolen from him.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2021
• Next up, Mar prepared a fresh tartare de la mer, asperges blanches, truffled turbot with légumes des jardins, and a canard á L’Orange.
  — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2021
• Juicy duck with plum sauce sits near a delightful roasted turnip stuffed with duck forcemeat, a modern take on canard aux navets.
  — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
• For the most part, liberals have failed to notice, let alone spotlight, that this canard gets the facts exactly backward.
  — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
• At high speeds, too much front-end load could bury the vehicle, so the crew will use the printout data to decide if the canard fins need to be raised, for example, and by how much.
  — David Diamond, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
• Its design features 36 electric jet engines arrayed in rows on moveable flaps on the wings and front canards.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
• But the Koch brothers canard spooked enough progressive voters to defeat the measure.
  — John Daniel Davidson, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• Such absorbers would likely be put on areas likely to reflect radar waves, such as the edges of canards, weapon bay doors, and engine nozzles.
  — Popular Science, 22 Mar. 2018
• And this canard that this exercise was done to make that possible is totally false.
  — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2020
• The Rafale is an agile jet, with a delta wing and large canards to enhance maneuverability.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
• The aircraft, about the size of an F-16, is shaped to cancel the sonic boom by separating the shock waves with various lifting surfaces (like canards).
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
• The special edition adds front bumper canards, a limited-slip differential, and rear performance dampers to help with performance.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 15 Aug. 2023
• And while he’s put the old canard on deficit spending to rest, his legislative slate will most likely include popular and passable programs, such as vaccine distribution, Covid-19 relief, and infrastructure.
  — Mari Uyehara, The New Republic, 18 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024