Tuck

//tʌk//

"Tuck" in a Sentence (23 examples)

At night, parents tuck their children into bed.

Tuck your shirt in.

I tuck my children into bed every night.

Can you tuck me in?

Tuck in!

Tom can really tuck into that breakfast.

In winter I tuck myself up in a duvet.

"Tuck in!" said Tom, opening the buffet.

I don't think it's necessary to tuck my shirt into my jeans.

Tuck the sheet under the edge of the mat.

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Tuck in your shirt.  I tucked in the sheet.  He tucked the $10 bill into his shirt pocket.

She tucked her hair behind her ear.

It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.

The sofa tucks nicely into that corner.

Kenwood House is tucked into a corner of Hampstead Heath.

The diver tucked, flipped, and opened up at the last moment.

to tuck a dress

Honey, have you tucked today? We don't wanna see anything nasty down there.

Never take a first-generation Learjet past Mach 0.82; it'll tuck hard nose-down and you won't be able to pull out from the dive.

'What on earth do Coker and his parcel of tuck matter to us? You're not thinking of snooping his tuck, I suppose, like Bunter.'

[…] with force he labour'd / To free's blade from retentive scabbard; / And after many a painful pluck, / From rusty durance he bail'd tuck […]

[...] dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. [...]

He wore large hose,[…] and a tuck, as it was then called, or rapier, of tremendous length.

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