How to Use quack in a Sentence
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The hen didn't make a quack and remained calm throughout the process.
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Paul A. Smith,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
22 May 2021
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When Todd gets something right, a quack can be heard, or at least part of one.
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George Saunders,
The New Yorker,
2 Nov. 2020
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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.
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Abigail Tucker,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Dec. 2022
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Unlocking the key to exposing that falsehood could help Gorski debunk a thousand quacks in one fell swoop.
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Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling,
The New Republic,
28 Feb. 2023
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Paul, speaking to reporters, seemed unfazed by Oz’s determination to supplant him as the Senate’s top quack.
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Andy Borowitz,
The New Yorker,
1 Dec. 2021
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House Bill 93 essentially criminalized the mills, putting Portsmouth’s quacks on notice.
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Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
1 July 2023
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Automatic ducking doesn't add quacks to your soundtrack.
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PC Magazine,
15 Nov. 2025
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As experts departed, quacks arrived.
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Charles Bethea,
New Yorker,
9 Sep. 2025
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And this is why hydropathy was not like many of the other quack medical therapies of the not-quite-modern era.
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John Jeremiah Sullivan,
Harpers Magazine,
29 Apr. 2025
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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.
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Philip Elliott,
Time,
5 Oct. 2022
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What is quack medicine to the healthcare mainstream is, nonetheless, getting enshrined as a treatment option by antiabortion activist lawmakers.
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WIRED,
6 Sep. 2022
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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.
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Roberta Smith,
New York Times,
15 Dec. 2022
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Junk shops are portals to mythological realms, and religious visions emerge from quack medicine ads.
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Robert Rubsam,
Washington Post,
2 May 2023
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Cure-all claims are one of the foremost signs of quack medicines.
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David Reamer,
Anchorage Daily News,
2 Jan. 2023
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