How to Use waddle in a Sentence

waddle

1 of 2 verb

• A fat goose waddled across the yard.
• He waddled down the hallway.
• The Johnsons limped and waddled to their white Chevy Tahoe and drove to the movies.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Free bikes can be signed out at the lake trail, while there are plenty of places to sit and watch the swans waddle by.
  — Karla Cripps, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
• Slowly waddling up the side of a 20-foot fan palm was a plump raccoon.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
• From near and far, some will fly to him, others swim to the water’s edge and waddle to his bag of food.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2020
• Others are waddling to the water to find fish and krill to feed their chicks and themselves.
  — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
• After a week of waddling around the zoo, each fluffy chick weighs around 100 grams and is close to 5 inches in length.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2019
• When the door opened, the penguins all waddled to their outdoor habitat.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024
• Pence waddled around in diapers and a bat in her hand, her mom laughed.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• The plush yellow duck of my youth has waddled out of storage and into my bed.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• Pokémon Day 2023, showed a blissful, sandy beach with a Psyduck waddling along the shore.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
• The lure will waddle and roll back and forth along the surface, creating its calling-card V wake.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• And as Nowlin held out a chunk of fish with a pair of silver tongs, Basil waddled forward, opened his toothy mouth, and chomped.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2023
• Beavers waddled the Texas coastal plain at least 22 million years ago and are found through most of eastern Texas today.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 28 Mar. 2023
• Once a year, with teeth bared, tongues dangling and faces smushed, these beasts waddle their way down a red carpet for the chance to win $1,500 and a trophy.
  — Nancy Coleman, CNN, 23 June 2017
• The woman released the duck, which waddled away as through drunk, and grabbed another.
  — Mathias Énard, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• More than 20 bird species, including colonies of puffins, the sight of them waddling over the rocks makes for a delightful photo — live around the cliffs.
  — Shivani Vora, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019
• Investors think that banks are dogs that can barely waddle.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2020
• As far as the pain level, sugaring is more like tweezing on the ouch scale—not pain-free but not waddle-to-the-subway painful.
  — Emily Rekstis, SELF, 25 July 2018
• Back by the fire, Ting waddles over to Taylor and nestles by the low coffee table, crowded with books.
  — Raisa Bruner, Time, 6 Feb. 2020
• Looking out toward the ocean, a half dozen miniature tuxedoed creatures emerge from the surf and waddle up the beach, their wings flapping in the air.
  — Elizabeth Warkentin, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021
• Tracks found elsewhere in the world indicate that the flying reptiles folded their wings to waddle on all fours while on the ground.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 11 June 2020
• Merely pulls them up and waddles off like a pasture penguin.
  — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• This is the last year to see king penguins waddle through the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.
  — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2024
• Ducks, white and brown feathers ruffled by the wind, waddled through the rainwater pooling on the sidewalks and the grass, still searching for food.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2017
• So Visco created a plywood ramp so the ducklings can waddle back to the safety of their nest.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2021
• His dancers waddle like storks, skim the ground squatting, bend deeply in every direction.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2017
• Life on land On land, penguins have an upright stance and tend to waddle, hop, or run with their bodies angled forward.
  — Elissa Nuñez, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• The charade goes on for a few more seconds, but then cuts out to the waddling toddler attempting to run after the forest creature.
  — Alexis Hobbs, Woman's Day, 21 Aug. 2015

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waddle

2 of 2 noun

• For the waddle: Cut a small pieces of licorice in a L shape and stick one on a side of the nose.
  — Kate Merker, Good Housekeeping, 28 Aug. 2019
• Draw on the waddle and snood with red and orange markers.
  — Meaghan Murphy, Good Housekeeping, 11 Nov. 2022
• With a waddle to his wit, Williams is a drag-out hit as the redoubtable Mrs. Doubtfire.
  — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Nov. 2019
• The joyride ended with a walk down the tunnel in a huff, the seething noticeable in Jonathan Quick’s waddle.
  — Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• Faces in the crowd light up as a babydoll southdown sheep waddles into the ring.
  — John Pana, cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• Jango likes to walk around with a waddle, letting his thick coat sway back and forth.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
• Mario Cristobal takes over the Ducks, who should lose a waddle in the coaching transition.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
• Walk like a penguin on ice: Walk slow, feet shoulder distance apart and take small waddle steps.
  — John Torres, NBC News, 2 Jan. 2018
• With his adorable waddle and Winston Churchill looks, the dog won over the judges and the fans— although his selection was a surprise to his handler.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
• To the delight of visitors who watch from a boardwalk, the penguins waddle, swim, build nests, and groom each other.
  — Bella English, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• The property is known for its ducks, which swim in a fountain in the hotel lobby and waddle through the hotel daily.
  — Steve Kaskovich, star-telegram.com, 30 June 2017
• This video has everything: corgis who run fast, corgis who just kind of waddle over to the side, false starts, and even a dog named Wiggle Butt.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 1 Aug. 2017
• Jayden — who had grown thickset, with curly black hair and a pigeon-toed waddle — needed new socks and sippy cups.
  — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2022
• Their fluffy faces and waddle-walk may seem pretty cute, but badgers keep some very tough company.
  — National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2020
• Throughout the number, the canned plant waddles like a curious infant learning her own body.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• Like a prehistoric beast, the giant airship waddles down the runway, six hours from London.
  — Dan Saltzstein, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• Each time a turtle reached the water — after a 25-yard waddle down the beach — onlookers cheered until its hind flippers slipped out of sight.
  — Emily Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
• As penguins squawk in the background and waddle around on small ridges, Boehme and his team look for seals to tag with sensors that will track the layer of warm water that’s thought to be melting Thwaites.
  — Stephen Witt, WIRED, 25 June 2019
• This one-step-forward-two-steps-back waddle, however, wasn't confined to the playoffs; the entire season was a string of stop signs after green lights.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• Just as a penguin waddles, changing your center of gravity will keep you upright.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• Crowe doesn't impersonate Ailes so much as inhabit him, from his padded waddle to his thunderous bouts of anger.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 June 2019
• And to teach me humility, the gods have condemned me to watch you waddle about wearing that proud lion that was my father’s sigil and his father’s before him.
  — Joanna Robinson, vanityfair.com, 30 July 2017
• Rodents missing a functional RORB gene waddle like ducks.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 25 Mar. 2021
• Think about it: a plastic flamingo donning a waddle and autumnal plumage could cause someone to mistake it for an actual turkey.
  — Candace Braun Davison, House Beautiful, 28 Sep. 2018
• Jacques de Vaucanson designed a number of things, the most notorious of which was an almost anatomically correct duck that could walk, quack, and waddle like a duck.
  — National Geographic, 11 Dec. 2016
• Be sure to come early for the 39th annual community parade, pancake breakfast and the Bassett Bash (a contest just for basset hounds, with prizes awarded for their specialties, such as best waddle and best howl).
  — Chateau Ste Michelle, The Seattle Times, 5 June 2017
• As the duck, Anderson executes diminutive waddles yet remains graceful and charming.
  — Sharma Howard, courant.com, 25 July 2017
• Some of the physical limitations that make Baby Yoda seem especially infantile, like his waddle of a walk, may not be developmental delays at all.
  — Eric Spitznagel, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2020
• Their striking appearance and jaunty waddles spark endless fascination among wildlife watchers and zoogoers alike.
  — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• Goslings waddle behind their mothers along deserted thoroughfares in Treviso.
  — The Economist, 16 Apr. 2020

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