How to Use quack in a Sentence

quack

1 of 2 noun
  • The hen didn't make a quack and remained calm throughout the process.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2021
  • When Todd gets something right, a quack can be heard, or at least part of one.
    George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The cry of the fishing cat sounds like the quack of a duck, and the rest of this midsize feline also seems tailor-made for the life aquatic.
    Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Unlocking the key to exposing that falsehood could help Gorski debunk a thousand quacks in one fell swoop.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Paul, speaking to reporters, seemed unfazed by Oz’s determination to supplant him as the Senate’s top quack.
    Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021
  • House Bill 93 essentially criminalized the mills, putting Portsmouth’s quacks on notice.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • Yet in terms of crafting an entertaining, cheerfully lightweight show around this latest quack attack, the producers have largely achieved their goal.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Ale’s just been fired from FreezeCorp, a quack company that sells people the promise of putting them in cryogenic sleep until future scientists develop the technology to revive them, and Swinton’s Elizabeth might be willing to extend his visa.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This has led advertisers, fearful of being associated with political extremists and anti-vaccine quacks, to flee the platform.
    Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
  • The hen didn't make a quack and remained calm throughout the process.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2021
  • When Todd gets something right, a quack can be heard, or at least part of one.
    George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The cry of the fishing cat sounds like the quack of a duck, and the rest of this midsize feline also seems tailor-made for the life aquatic.
    Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Unlocking the key to exposing that falsehood could help Gorski debunk a thousand quacks in one fell swoop.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Paul, speaking to reporters, seemed unfazed by Oz’s determination to supplant him as the Senate’s top quack.
    Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021
  • House Bill 93 essentially criminalized the mills, putting Portsmouth’s quacks on notice.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • Yet in terms of crafting an entertaining, cheerfully lightweight show around this latest quack attack, the producers have largely achieved their goal.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Ale’s just been fired from FreezeCorp, a quack company that sells people the promise of putting them in cryogenic sleep until future scientists develop the technology to revive them, and Swinton’s Elizabeth might be willing to extend his visa.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This has led advertisers, fearful of being associated with political extremists and anti-vaccine quacks, to flee the platform.
    Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
  • The hen didn't make a quack and remained calm throughout the process.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2021
  • When Todd gets something right, a quack can be heard, or at least part of one.
    George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The cry of the fishing cat sounds like the quack of a duck, and the rest of this midsize feline also seems tailor-made for the life aquatic.
    Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2022
  • Unlocking the key to exposing that falsehood could help Gorski debunk a thousand quacks in one fell swoop.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Paul, speaking to reporters, seemed unfazed by Oz’s determination to supplant him as the Senate’s top quack.
    Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2021
  • House Bill 93 essentially criminalized the mills, putting Portsmouth’s quacks on notice.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
  • Yet in terms of crafting an entertaining, cheerfully lightweight show around this latest quack attack, the producers have largely achieved their goal.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Ale’s just been fired from FreezeCorp, a quack company that sells people the promise of putting them in cryogenic sleep until future scientists develop the technology to revive them, and Swinton’s Elizabeth might be willing to extend his visa.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Mar. 2023
  • This has led advertisers, fearful of being associated with political extremists and anti-vaccine quacks, to flee the platform.
    Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2023
  • The hen didn't make a quack and remained calm throughout the process.
    Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2021
  • When Todd gets something right, a quack can be heard, or at least part of one.
    George Saunders, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The cry of the fishing cat sounds like the quack of a duck, and the rest of this midsize feline also seems tailor-made for the life aquatic.
    Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2022
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quack

2 of 2 adjective
  • Gorski persists in his quack-bashing passion, now buttressing his blog posts with a relentless stream of sharp-elbowed tweets.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This week, his campaign tossed on its social channels a video comparing a quack doctor on The Simpsons with Oz, who has faced serious questions about his credentials.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Oct. 2022
  • What is quack medicine to the healthcare mainstream is, nonetheless, getting enshrined as a treatment option by antiabortion activist lawmakers.
    WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Anatomical studies face off with satires of quack doctors, watercolors of erupting volcanoes with cross-sections of slave ships; and if Enlightenment reason is found somewhat wanting, its philosophers also furnish us tools for its own critique.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Jones earns up to $70 million a year selling products tailored to his audience’s distrust of government and established science, including diet supplements and quack cures, survivalist gear, and gun paraphernalia.
    Elizabeth Williamson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Even as evidence of the plague became incontrovertible, doctors continued to diagnose alternate illnesses and peddle quack remedies.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Gorski persists in his quack-bashing passion, now buttressing his blog posts with a relentless stream of sharp-elbowed tweets.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This week, his campaign tossed on its social channels a video comparing a quack doctor on The Simpsons with Oz, who has faced serious questions about his credentials.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Oct. 2022
  • What is quack medicine to the healthcare mainstream is, nonetheless, getting enshrined as a treatment option by antiabortion activist lawmakers.
    WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Anatomical studies face off with satires of quack doctors, watercolors of erupting volcanoes with cross-sections of slave ships; and if Enlightenment reason is found somewhat wanting, its philosophers also furnish us tools for its own critique.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Jones earns up to $70 million a year selling products tailored to his audience’s distrust of government and established science, including diet supplements and quack cures, survivalist gear, and gun paraphernalia.
    Elizabeth Williamson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Even as evidence of the plague became incontrovertible, doctors continued to diagnose alternate illnesses and peddle quack remedies.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Gorski persists in his quack-bashing passion, now buttressing his blog posts with a relentless stream of sharp-elbowed tweets.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This week, his campaign tossed on its social channels a video comparing a quack doctor on The Simpsons with Oz, who has faced serious questions about his credentials.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Oct. 2022
  • What is quack medicine to the healthcare mainstream is, nonetheless, getting enshrined as a treatment option by antiabortion activist lawmakers.
    WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Anatomical studies face off with satires of quack doctors, watercolors of erupting volcanoes with cross-sections of slave ships; and if Enlightenment reason is found somewhat wanting, its philosophers also furnish us tools for its own critique.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Jones earns up to $70 million a year selling products tailored to his audience’s distrust of government and established science, including diet supplements and quack cures, survivalist gear, and gun paraphernalia.
    Elizabeth Williamson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Even as evidence of the plague became incontrovertible, doctors continued to diagnose alternate illnesses and peddle quack remedies.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Gorski persists in his quack-bashing passion, now buttressing his blog posts with a relentless stream of sharp-elbowed tweets.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This week, his campaign tossed on its social channels a video comparing a quack doctor on The Simpsons with Oz, who has faced serious questions about his credentials.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Oct. 2022
  • What is quack medicine to the healthcare mainstream is, nonetheless, getting enshrined as a treatment option by antiabortion activist lawmakers.
    WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Anatomical studies face off with satires of quack doctors, watercolors of erupting volcanoes with cross-sections of slave ships; and if Enlightenment reason is found somewhat wanting, its philosophers also furnish us tools for its own critique.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Jones earns up to $70 million a year selling products tailored to his audience’s distrust of government and established science, including diet supplements and quack cures, survivalist gear, and gun paraphernalia.
    Elizabeth Williamson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Even as evidence of the plague became incontrovertible, doctors continued to diagnose alternate illnesses and peddle quack remedies.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022
  • Gorski persists in his quack-bashing passion, now buttressing his blog posts with a relentless stream of sharp-elbowed tweets.
    Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, The New Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
  • This week, his campaign tossed on its social channels a video comparing a quack doctor on The Simpsons with Oz, who has faced serious questions about his credentials.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 5 Oct. 2022
  • What is quack medicine to the healthcare mainstream is, nonetheless, getting enshrined as a treatment option by antiabortion activist lawmakers.
    WIRED, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Anatomical studies face off with satires of quack doctors, watercolors of erupting volcanoes with cross-sections of slave ships; and if Enlightenment reason is found somewhat wanting, its philosophers also furnish us tools for its own critique.
    Roberta Smith, New York Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Jones earns up to $70 million a year selling products tailored to his audience’s distrust of government and established science, including diet supplements and quack cures, survivalist gear, and gun paraphernalia.
    Elizabeth Williamson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Even as evidence of the plague became incontrovertible, doctors continued to diagnose alternate illnesses and peddle quack remedies.
    Sam Sacks, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2022

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