BUCK in a Sentence

Learn BUCK from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

20 example sentences for BUCK, such as:

1. John is trying to buck for a promotion.
2. He bucked at the suggestion to reduce his staff.
3. He wants to be the tough rebel who bucks the system.
4. She put the squeeze on her mother for a hundred bucks.
5. He knew that with a change of scene he would soon buck up.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUCK
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buck
 v.  move quickly and violently; jump vertically; strive with determination
Classic Sentence:
1  Then her eyes lighted on a singing black buck in the front rank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  "Soon's Ah kick dis black trash outer mah way," answered Mammy loudly, swinging the carpetbag at a black buck who loitered tantalizingly in front of her and making him leap aside.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  And that is the reason why a young buck with an intelligent looking calf's head before him, is somehow one of the saddest sights you can see.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
4  In another moment the twang of the cord was heard, a white streak was seen glancing into the bushes, and the wounded buck plunged from the cover, to the very feet of his hidden enemy.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3
5  Come," he said, with a good-humored smile; "the buck that will take to the water must be headed, and not followed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
6  He is despotic, and unmerciful to insubordination; he would shoot a fellow down with as little remorse as he would shoot a buck, if he opposed him.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  The old man was a buck of the King Edward school, who thought life was life and the scribbling fellows were something else.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
8  A dim line of ancestors, in every variety of dress, from the Elizabethan knight to the buck of the Regency, stared down upon us and daunted us by their silent company.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. Baskerville Hall
9  He's gone through all his cash, the precious buck, so now he sticks here with his tail between his legs and takes it easy.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
10  As we crossed Blackwell's Island a limousine passed us, driven by a white chauffeur, in which sat three modish Negroes, two bucks and a girl.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
11  You fire-eating young bucks, listen to me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  And when my family wanted me to marry a second cousin, I bucked like a colt.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  As for sex, the last of the great words, it was just a cocktail term for an excitement that bucked you up for a while, then left you more raggy than ever.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
14  At last the rotary snow-plow came through, bucking the drifts, sending up a geyser, and the way to the Outside was open again.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence:
1  Anything anybody said to him to try and buck him up wouldn't sink in.
2  He knew that with a change of scene he would soon buck up.
3  John is trying to buck for a promotion.
4  He wants to be the tough rebel who bucks the system.
5  She put the squeeze on her mother for a hundred bucks.
6  He bucked at the suggestion to reduce his staff.