How to Use duck call in a Sentence

duck call

noun
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  • The bomber used a duck call and Morse code to maintain anonymity.
    — oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2019
  • There was no duck call around my neck to greet them with an even steady rhythm.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 June 2020
  • All my duck calls, gloves and camera (thank God) were bone dry.
    — The Editors, Outdoor Life, 22 Jan. 2020
  • The five-note series used in many duck calls reminded me of the first line of a haiku.
    — Author: Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Some of the best days of my life have been spent waist-deep in a marsh holding a shotgun and blowing a duck call.
    — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 26 June 2020
  • The Steelers have had trouble with quarterback injuries, so Hodges took the field and became known for his duck calls.
    — Giana Han, al, 22 Nov. 2019
  • That's when firefighter Michael Velasquez came up with a smart idea -- to lure the frightened ducklings out with a YouTube video of a mother duck calling for her ducklings.
    — Michelle Lou, CNN, 21 June 2019
  • The duck call itself is a wind instrument not unlike the harmonica.
    — Author: Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Oct. 2017
  • But the idea – no matter how bookish – renewed my fascination and duck calling practice.
    — Author: Christine Cunningham, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Instead there will be outdoor baths in tubs hewn out of rock in view of distant rice terraces shimmering neat and domestic as putting greens, giving on to wild forests full of parrots and wood pigeons fat as ducks calling from banyan trees.
    — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Hodges, who joined the Steelers as nothing more than a training-camp body out of Samford University and got the nickname because of his passion for duck hunting and his ability to do duck calls, has been an unexpected shot in the arm.
    — Bob McManaman, azcentral, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Instead, the exact opposite is happening in Pittsburgh as an undrafted free agent named Devlin Hodges, who earned his nickname winning multiple duck calling championships.
    — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The festival will also feature food, children’s activities, silent auctions, retriever demonstrations, carving competitions, goose and duck calling competitions and lots more.
    — baltimoresun.com, 2 May 2018

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