How to Use duck out in a Sentence

duck out

verb
  • People would duck out all the time to the bar around the corner.
    — Tom Freston, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Look at how sports have begun ducking out over to streaming.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Suarez Escobar ducked out of the frame.
    — Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Kevin would sense, ‘This is a bad situation,’ and duck out.
    — Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Then there’s the man doing the hugging, who, slower on the uptake, ducks out of view.
    — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 28 Nov. 2025
  • The Princess Diaries star smiles, caresses her belly, then ducks out of the frame.
    — Redazione People, Vanity Fair, 19 June 2026
  • Gorajski flinched and ducked out of the way like Cisek was an incoming meteor.
    — Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Feel free to duck out during the jury votes — but get your butt back on the couch for this bit, because this is what Eurovision is all about.
    — Glen Weldon, NPR, 14 May 2026
  • Like deer caught in a headlight, Byron promptly ducked out of frame, while Cabot covered her face and turned her back on the camera.
    — EW.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Partridge rolled in, shared a laugh with Escola, and promptly ducked out a side door for a smoke, a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
    — Leigh Nordstrom, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The three involved in the theft were seen carrying the ducks out in two separate trips and loading them into a truck before dropping them off at a friend's house.
    — Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • After all, the artist was likely going to give us a personal tour of their work, so just ducking out at a moment’s notice would be a little awkward.
    — Wayne Chan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Shaq ducked out quietly after the game and did not mingle or sign autographs, per his norm, seemingly leaving the moment for the seniors.
    — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The three were then seen carrying the ducks out in two separate trips and loading them into a truck before dropping them off at a friend's house, according to Conklin.
    — Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • On the other hand, some viewers might feel just the opposite — that the film ducks out of addressing white-hot topics such as trans women and girls in women’s sports or the studies that don’t support medical interventions for children under 18 and so on.
    — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Boston, Orlando, Philadelphia and Phoenix were also among the teams to shed salary and duck out of the tax on a big week for supporters of the 2023 collective bargaining agreement.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 6 Feb. 2026
  • So she was forced to duck out of the VMAs no more than 15 minutes in and book it to her own show about 18 miles away, leaving the UBS Arena after accepting the first award of artist of the year.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025

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