How to Use buck in a Sentence
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Now the buck stopped with them.
—Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 25 May 2026
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These bucks need to wait in line.
—Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2026
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Quick, easy and 5 bucks for lunch.
—Teresa Mull, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
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The pay hike amounts to a buck an hour.
—Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
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Here's how to get the most bang for your buck.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 1 Apr. 2026
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How to make big, well, some bucks in late night?
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 29 May 2026
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Even with a team, the buck still stops with you.
—Braden Yuill, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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Two more hunters in the canyon had shot bucks that day.
—Chester Chatfield, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
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Looking for more bang for your buck?
—Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Sep. 2025
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Are those fresh tracks buck tracks, or tracks from a doe with fawns?
—Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 27 Aug. 2025
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The buck stops with the humans.
—Big Think, 11 Sep. 2025
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The buck's got to stop with somebody.
—Jack Fink, CBS News, 3 May 2026
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Want a meal that tastes like a million bucks?
—Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 9 Nov. 2025
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Every buck stops with the head coach.
—Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 13 May 2026
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This might offer more bang for your buck.
—Sara Braun, Charlotte Observer, 29 Dec. 2025
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Does and young bucks are ideal for new hunters.
—Will Brantley, Outdoor Life, 29 Oct. 2025
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Someone had to be the guy where the buck stops.
—Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 21 Sep. 2025
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Let the young bucks deal with the shuttles.
—Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026
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But where were those elusive bucks?
—Chester Chatfield, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
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The bucks know there will be fights over the females.
—Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 30 Aug. 2025
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But my dad said there was a giant of a buck around.
—Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
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Think tickets were like 7 bucks back then.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
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To a buck, red and orange look gray while blue is easy to spot.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 6 July 2023
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For the scammers, deed theft is just a way to make a quick buck.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2026
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The buck had his head in the air and was struggling to his feet!
—Chester Chatfield, Outdoor Life, 20 Aug. 2025
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Opt for soy or pea milk to get the most protein bang for your buck.
—Audrey Bruno, SELF, 25 Sep. 2025
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And at 30% off, this starter set is great bang for your buck.
—Parents, 23 June 2026
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The dead buck was stuck fast, his snout buried firm under the ice shelf.
—Nick Fasciano, Outdoor Life, 8 Feb. 2024
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About a dozen does with some small bucks were coming in and out of the field.
—Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
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Gas is up nearly a buck since the war began.
—Bill McKibben, New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2026
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To be sure, some names have bucked the trend.
—Itzel Franco, CNBC, 15 Mar. 2026
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The Dodgers got their chances to buck that trend.
—Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 19 May 2026
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Some brands are bucking the trend.
—Gemma A. Williams, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
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So bucking that trend was a sound choice.
—Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
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Still, some regions may buck that trend.
—Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Leeds’ mission is to buck that trend.
—Ahmed Walid, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
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Trends have been bucked, decades-long waits have been ended.
—Beren Cross, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
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But some entrepreneurs are looking to buck the trend.
—Adrian Ma, NPR, 16 Mar. 2026
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Use high speed for felling or to buck the trunk into firewood lengths.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
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By contrast, some regions buck the trend.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
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But one state that’s bucking the trend is Michigan.
—Editorial Board, Washington Post, 14 May 2026
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Can the Illini buck the up-then-down season trend?
—Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
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Veritas is one of a select few firms that have bucked that trend this year.
—Hank Tucker, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Apple and Google have notably bucked this trend.
—Julia Shapero, The Hill, 27 Nov. 2025
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Brands that buck this trend are the subject of intense backlash.
—Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
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Goldman Sachs bucked the trend and raised its PT.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2025
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Flav then bucked expectations for the next two dances.
—Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2025
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This means bucking a picture of hopeless plight.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
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But Lamar's murder bucked that notion.
—Trymaine Lee, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025
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And the Heat, in those days, were a bit of a powderkeg that found a way to buck the odds.
—CBS News, 4 Feb. 2026
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Nvidia, which bucked the trend and closed higher Tuesday, was up 2%.
—Davis Giangiulio, CNBC, 13 May 2026
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This wouldn’t be the first time Bordes bucked his party on this topic.
—Steven Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
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To embrace the split toe is to consciously buck the mainstream.
—Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
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Tuesday’s vote in Moreno Valley bucked that trend.
—Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 5 Feb. 2026
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This year’s crop of best-costume nominees isn’t doing much to buck that trend.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024
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Podcasting — not to your question, but as a side answer — has bucked that a lot to date.
—Nilay Patel, The Verge, 28 Feb. 2023
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In fact, much of Trier’s process seems to be about finding ways to buck that model.
—Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
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These women bucked tradition and popped the question to their boyfriends.
—Carly Breit, Peoplemag, 7 Aug. 2023
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But to my surprise, these watercolors have bucked the trend.
—Lauren Silbert, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026
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But to my surprise, these watercolors have bucked the trend.
—Lauren Silbert, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
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