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Example sentences for "bucked"

Lexicographically close words:
buccra; buchu; buck; buckboard; buckboards; bucket; bucketful; bucketfuls; buckets; buckett
  1. Even at this day some of the survivors are unable to repress a ripple of merriment as they recall the manner in which the oxen bucked and bellowed when the unaccustomed packs were strapped upon their backs.

  2. The engine stopped and the car bucked crazily and went into the ditch beside the highway.

  3. The pony wrenched to the left, the off front wheel jammed in a rut, came off, and the phaeton rose like a live thing beneath me and bucked me out on to the road.

  4. We had all we could do to hold them in hand at Melbourne, and after the contrary trades we've bucked the past week, and the heat, their tongues are hanging out for a drop of liquor.

  5. On the way through, the big, powerful old girl bucked and rocked and reared until we men and the black cat inside her were thrown again and again into a jumble, the cat scratching us like a devil in her frenzy of fear.

  6. She bucked with enthusiasm and intelligence, as she did all things.

  7. She bucked like a fiend of revolt one instant and cantered like an angel of grace the next; in fact she was more or less of an equine counterpart of her rider.

  8. Bronco Jim had tried to ride the big, bald-faced sorrel belonging to the Oregon horse outfit and had been bucked off and his face smashed in.

  9. Once it bucked Roosevelt off, resulting in a fall that broke a rib.

  10. I had not supposed that Madam liked me, and her unconscious admission bucked me to a surprising extent.

  11. I found old Nute in the seventh; and I was bucked the moment I got in.

  12. That bucked me; the devil was on the job!

  13. He answered, "Yes, my friend; I've been bucked and gagged meself many a time.

  14. King sahib, she is all bucked up about it!

  15. With a suddenness that disarmed all opposition the other humped himself against the wall and bucked into the dumb man's back, sending him, weapons and all, hurtling over the precipice.

  16. He bucked with his head up and his head between his knees.

  17. He bucked criss-cross, jumping from side to side, and he interspersed this with samples of all his other kinds of bucking thrown in.

  18. He bucked in a circle and in a straight line and then mixed both styles for variety.

  19. We forgot all about this, and when Horace jumped into his saddle, he gave a jerk on the reins--and got bucked into a clump o' cactus.

  20. Horace intended to start for the East at once; but next day when he put on his dude clothes again, Promotheus purty nigh bucked on him.

  21. Me an' The bucked at this for some time; but Horace hung out; so we went along with him.

  22. I should be awfully bucked if you would have it, too.

  23. Because I am so bucked if I see you relishing mine.

  24. Bucked in milk of lime for 10 or 12 hours.

  25. Examined, the white ones taken out, and the others again bucked and crofted.

  26. Bucked with resinate of soda for about 12 hours.

  27. Bucked with soda-ash for about 10 hours, and washed.

  28. They are bucked or boiled, for 4 or 5 hours, in a solution of 1 lb.

  29. Souring and washing follow, when the goods are again put into the alkaline and chloride bath, as before; after which they are soured, and bucked again with soda.

  30. Round and round the ring The Savage bucked in a series of furious leaps.

  31. Two minutes, and for the next sixty seconds Lion bucked like a clockwork machine until every bone in Glen's body felt like cracking.

  32. After a dozen rounds he began bucking as no horse ever bucked before.

  33. Another hundred yards, and I should have bucked my pack off.

  34. A cruel east wind blew in his teeth from Tagish, but he got the oars over the side and bucked manfully into it, though half the time he was drifting backward and chopping ice from the blades.

  35. The first snow flurries came, and the last homing steamboat bucked desperately into the running mush ice.

  36. It was a very cheerful meal, and even Satvet bucked up, and eventually said he would hand over to me his embassy and all his papers if it would help the fleet to find out who was who.

  37. This beer, to me so long estranged, was so good that I bucked up to a degree, and decided, as I have always tried to do since in moments of catastrophe, to merely suspend judgment and my grief.

  38. The melee finally ended by four of the guards who were crazy drunk, being bucked and gagged to keep them quiet.

  39. The gallant beast, as if he knew the need for despatch, bucked straight ahead till he merged into an easy gallop.

  40. Your hair's kind of wavy, I notice, but it will put crimps in it to hear Bill Lightfoot or some of them Sunflower stiffs when they git bucked onto a rock pile.

  41. But having bucked trail all morning, the solution of her immediate future just then heralded its arrival by the groan of frosty runners.

  42. The cutter bucked like a live thing, and as it dropped from the high trail a runner cracked with a pistol report.

  43. A lively few seconds ensued, and the pony bucked so effectively that its rider had all he could do to stick to the saddle, and at the same time manage his captive and the reins.

  44. You'll rue the day and the minute that you bucked me off your back.

  45. No sooner was he on than he was off again, for the pony had never been ridden without a saddle, and promptly bucked when his owner mounted.

  46. Well, if a man were bucking against me, I do not think I would wait to see how he would turn out before I bucked back.

  47. You will remember that I bucked back pretty hard in your case.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bucked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.