How to Use canard in a Sentence

canard

noun
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  • The book repeats some of history's oldest canards.
  • The canard that math is racist has been around for a while.
    — Kenin M. Spivak, National Review, 16 Sep. 2021
  • This is, of course, a canard tossed in the last week of the year, with the House now out of session.
    — Jeff Bewkes, Fortune, 30 Dec. 2020
  • This gives the lie to that canard about which fork to use being a snobbish etiquette test.
    — Judith Martin, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2019
  • All of the familiar pro and con gun canards will be offered.
    — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 28 Feb. 2018
  • One canard about immigrants is that many come for the comforts of the welfare state.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Oct. 2022
  • There's also a small fin, called a canard, near the front of the spaceship, which helps in-flight stability.
    — Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Sep. 2018
  • That’s the great canard of any sports stadium campaign.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Canard a la presse: Blood is the lynchpin of canard a la presse, the signature dish at Otto's in London.
    — Thomas Page, CNN, 30 May 2017
  • Fans of Dimes’s broccoli melt may blink hard at Corner Bar’s canard à l’orange and terrine of foie gras with riesling gelée.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Trotting out the canard that married priests would mean less abuse isn’t just ignorant.
    — Ed Condon, National Review, 31 July 2022
  • Soul music is playing in the background as the students take orders for Cuisse de canard and Paupiettes de mérou.
    — cleveland, 26 Nov. 2019
  • But the bar has clung to the privacy canard as an excuse for obstructing access.
    — Mercury News Editorial Board, The Mercury News, 9 May 2017
  • But Rushdie buys into the tired liberal canard that posits that liberals are the ones going out on a limb to speak truth to power.
    — Michael Washburn, National Review, 13 June 2021
  • The canard soon appeared in a couple of college student newspapers -- and took off from there.
    — oregonlive, 24 Sep. 2019
  • As in the ancient world, the blood libel and other canards about the anti-human can be applied to any enemy.
    — John-Paul Pagano, National Review, 23 Sep. 2019
  • The worst canard surrounding the Four Freedoms concerns the Freedom from Want picture.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 June 2019
  • The report didn’t get a whole lot of attention and isn’t likely to change many, if any, minds among those who have bought into Trump’s canard that the election was stolen from him.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Next up, Mar prepared a fresh tartare de la mer, asperges blanches, truffled turbot with légumes des jardins, and a canard á L’Orange.
    — Eliseé Browchuk, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Juicy duck with plum sauce sits near a delightful roasted turnip stuffed with duck forcemeat, a modern take on canard aux navets.
    — Shauna Lyon, The New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2021
  • For the most part, liberals have failed to notice, let alone spotlight, that this canard gets the facts exactly backward.
    — Simon Lazarus, The New Republic, 6 May 2021
  • At high speeds, too much front-end load could bury the vehicle, so the crew will use the printout data to decide if the canard fins need to be raised, for example, and by how much.
    — David Diamond, WIRED, 1 Nov. 1996
  • Its design features 36 electric jet engines arrayed in rows on moveable flaps on the wings and front canards.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 12 Sep. 2018
  • But the Koch brothers canard spooked enough progressive voters to defeat the measure.
    — John Daniel Davidson, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Such absorbers would likely be put on areas likely to reflect radar waves, such as the edges of canards, weapon bay doors, and engine nozzles.
    — Popular Science, 22 Mar. 2018
  • And this canard that this exercise was done to make that possible is totally false.
    — Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner, 8 June 2020
  • The Rafale is an agile jet, with a delta wing and large canards to enhance maneuverability.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The aircraft, about the size of an F-16, is shaped to cancel the sonic boom by separating the shock waves with various lifting surfaces (like canards).
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 7 Jan. 2019
  • There are many canards about that generation, but the most persistent is that the boomers were central to the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties.
    — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2019
  • Trump’s supposed resistance to war was always a canard.
    — Jake Bittle, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021

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