How to Use mallard in a Sentence

mallard

noun

• The wet fly has a wing of mallard flank and a body made of red silk or floss.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2018
• Few hunters know a mallard from a scaup — or even know what a scaup is.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2021
• Instead of a green-headed mallard, the male of the species looks like the mottled brown hen.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2020
• The sketch showed a drake and hen mallard dropping into a marsh.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2021
• The usual Canada goose flock was present, as were a pair of mallards.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 16 Mar. 2018
• At the edge of the property is a pond where swans, mallards and coots paddle around.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2018
• It was followed in the next 20 minutes by lone mallards and blue-winged teal.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2017
• But my two favorites are the mallard and pheasant from Duck Camp.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 24 May 2023
• Trumpeter swans nest there, and sandhill cranes, as well as the mallards.
  — Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 22 May 2017
• Does the fossil record contain evidence of a mallard the size of a 727?
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• But one day the mallard was gone and the nest was empty, with no sign of eggshells or any disturbance.
  — Val Cunningham Contributing Writer, Star Tribune, 1 Sep. 2020
• To them, a marshy low spot that provides nesting for mallards and muskrats is a hindrance to progress.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2018
• Morgan said some birds are wild, including the mallards that strut around on the shore.
  — Lex Talamo, The Seattle Times, 24 Jan. 2018
• Two slices of ham form a neck, while a pheasant and a mallard stand in for a shoulder that leads us to sausage fingers.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• Well, Avery the mallard is not only cute but also loves dabbling in the world of art.
  — Nikita Charuza, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023
• On March 30, a passerby called police about a mallard duck seen in the middle of Westwood Drive.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 7 Apr. 2021
• At 6:35 a lone drake mallard winged in to take a look at our spread and Kammerzelt responded with a perfect shot.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2022
• Their bears are damp from trout, their mallards balance on feathers.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• Usually, the lake had a mix of pines and maples around it, mallards and mergansers on it, the sky’s changing moods reflected in it.
  — Alec Scott, Sunset Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
• The mallard also lacks some instincts baby loons might have.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 July 2019
• Passengers may spy mergansers and mallards, deer, and even black bears.
  — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• The drake mallard hung around, quacking from the roofline of my neighbor’s house for a few days, and then another female appeared.
  — Frank Abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, 3 June 2018
• But the video eventually cuts to a different clip in which the mallard is clearly dead.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 13 July 2023
• Unable to obtain carcasses of Eurasian coot or teal, the researchers used the wing bones of two female mallard ducks.
  — Franz Lidz, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• A breeding male mallard in your typical city park has a five-inch penis.
  — Richard O. Prum, The New Yorker, 17 May 2017
• But one of his most popular illustrations was also of one of the most common of all birds: the mallard duck.
  — The School Of Life, CNN, 27 May 2020
• Many mallard/green-wing hybrids will have a chestnut brown mallard-like breast and yellow bill.
  — Ryan Chelius, Outdoor Life, 1 Mar. 2021
• Instead, McCourty dived to pick off the misguided mallard at the Jets 40.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• For instance, mallards defy norms of male dominance by putting the females in charge of picking a mate.
  — Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• On a recent cool morning here, mallards flew overhead, pelicans swam on the lake, coots picked bugs out of the mud, and a lone doe sauntered through tall grass.
  — Adam Popescu, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024