How to Use waddle in a Sentence

waddle

1 of 2 verb

• A fat goose waddled across the yard.
• He waddled down the hallway.
• But Seymour did not opt for the waddling bird in the hand.
  — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
• Like, waddling-around, can't-see-your-feet, fifteen-chins fat.
  — Gretchen Hansen, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Nov. 2025
• Pence waddled around in diapers and a bat in her hand, her mom laughed.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 25 Jan. 2018
• The plush yellow duck of my youth has waddled out of storage and into my bed.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• With a sigh, the German lady picks up her bags and waddles away.
  — Esther Yi, New Yorker, 14 June 2026
• Free bikes can be signed out at the lake trail, while there are plenty of places to sit and watch the swans waddle by.
  — Karla Cripps, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
• Others are waddling to the water to find fish and krill to feed their chicks and themselves.
  — Janice Wald Henderson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Feb. 2023
• Slowly waddling up the side of a 20-foot fan palm was a plump raccoon.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2023
• From near and far, some will fly to him, others swim to the water’s edge and waddle to his bag of food.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2020
• When the door opened, the penguins all waddled to their outdoor habitat.
  — Amy Schwabe, Journal Sentinel, 2 Feb. 2024
• The woman released the duck, which waddled away as through drunk, and grabbed another.
  — Mathias Énard, Harper's Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
• The Johnsons limped and waddled to their white Chevy Tahoe and drove to the movies.
  — Greg Bishop, SI.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• These flightless tuxedoed birds waddle across land like infants taking their first steps.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Sep. 2021
• His dancers waddle like storks, skim the ground squatting, bend deeply in every direction.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2017
• Think penguins waddling back to the same partner each breeding season.
  — Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2026
• The lure will waddle and roll back and forth along the surface, creating its calling-card V wake.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
• Now and then, a sea lion will waddle a block or two into downtown Astoria.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Ursula waddles back into the ocean, knowing full well that sometimes girl code is the harshest weapon of all.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2025
• Inside the house, a plastic bin in the TV room held a striped emu chick, waddling under a heat lamp.
  — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
• After a week of waddling around the zoo, each fluffy chick weighs around 100 grams and is close to 5 inches in length.
  — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 18 July 2019
• Tracks found elsewhere in the world indicate that the flying reptiles folded their wings to waddle on all fours while on the ground.
  — Riley Black, Scientific American, 11 June 2020
• So Visco created a plywood ramp so the ducklings can waddle back to the safety of their nest.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2021
• But the lion lets go, letting another member of its pride take a stab at the unstoppable, waddling prey.
  — Elaina Zachos, National Geographic, 19 Dec. 2017
• Oregon waddling around with a Big Ten swagger would be dangerous.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
• Life on land On land, penguins have an upright stance and tend to waddle, hop, or run with their bodies angled forward.
  — Elissa Nuñez, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• When not flapping their wings, the chicks waddle around the nest, finding shady spots and playing with sticks and their dad's tail, the nonprofit said.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 12 May 2026
• And as Nowlin held out a chunk of fish with a pair of silver tongs, Basil waddled forward, opened his toothy mouth, and chomped.
  — Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2023
• Looking out toward the ocean, a half dozen miniature tuxedoed creatures emerge from the surf and waddle up the beach, their wings flapping in the air.
  — Elizabeth Warkentin, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2021

waddle

2 of 2 noun

• Jango likes to walk around with a waddle, letting his thick coat sway back and forth.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2022
• Faces in the crowd light up as a babydoll southdown sheep waddles into the ring.
  — John Pana, cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• Game play involves collecting runs and three-of-a-kind sets of cards, known as waddles.
  — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 May 2026
• Cut out the turkey's beak and waddle from the red and orange vinyl or colored paper.
  — Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 27 Nov. 2024
• Twice a day, seven days a week, the famous fowl waddle single file through the lobby.
  — Rebecca Angel Baer, Southern Living, 27 Nov. 2025
• Their fluffy faces and waddle-walk may seem pretty cute, but badgers keep some very tough company.
  — National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2020
• In this case, the suit appears to be a little unweildy, forcing wearers to adopt a sort of waddle to move.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 31 Jan. 2026
• At least the backgrounds are eye-catching, as a waddle of mallards crack jokes amid beautiful fall foliage.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• Just as a penguin waddles, changing your center of gravity will keep you upright.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
• To the delight of visitors who watch from a boardwalk, the penguins waddle, swim, build nests, and groom each other.
  — Bella English, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Mario Cristobal takes over the Ducks, who should lose a waddle in the coaching transition.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 14 Dec. 2017
• The property is known for its ducks, which swim in a fountain in the hotel lobby and waddle through the hotel daily.
  — Steve Kaskovich, star-telegram.com, 30 June 2017
• Some of it is just an extreme version of your grandmother who used to futilely pat the bottom of her chin to fix that waddle.
  — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
• The joyride ended with a walk down the tunnel in a huff, the seething noticeable in Jonathan Quick’s waddle.
  — Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• In the video, Chu lays out food for Sage, but Sasha quickly hears the sound of the food and waddles into the kitchen.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• King penguins move by walking, as opposed to many other species that hop, which makes this big baby's awkward waddle even funnier.
  — New Atlas, 24 Sep. 2024
• Like a prehistoric beast, the giant airship waddles down the runway, six hours from London.
  — Dan Saltzstein, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• Crowe doesn't impersonate Ailes so much as inhabit him, from his padded waddle to his thunderous bouts of anger.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 26 June 2019
• Farrell’s Penguin is heavily scarred, walks with a waddle due to his club foot, and has an overbearing mother.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
• Each time a turtle reached the water — after a 25-yard waddle down the beach — onlookers cheered until its hind flippers slipped out of sight.
  — Emily Williams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2018
• He is often drawn to physically resemble a penguin, dressed in a formal suit with a long birdlike nose, shuffling with a bit of a waddle.
  — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
• This one-step-forward-two-steps-back waddle, however, wasn't confined to the playoffs; the entire season was a string of stop signs after green lights.
  — Sarah McLellan, Star Tribune, 8 Aug. 2020
• With his adorable waddle and Winston Churchill looks, the dog won over the judges and the fans— although his selection was a surprise to his handler.
  — Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2019
• The show includes a waddle of penguins, a mischievous garden of flowers, a drag queen, and other fanciful characters.
  — oregonlive, 7 Dec. 2022
• Domestic turkeys must pitch their bodies forward to stabilize themselves, keep their feet wider apart, take shorter, shuffling steps, and have a more pronounced waddle.
  — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
• As the duck, Anderson executes diminutive waddles yet remains graceful and charming.
  — Sharma Howard, courant.com, 25 July 2017
• Their striking appearance and jaunty waddles spark endless fascination among wildlife watchers and zoogoers alike.
  — National Geographic, 25 Apr. 2019
• By the way, because Vidal can spare no form of mockery, we are introduced to George Washington as a man who walks with an ungainly waddle.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2026
• Jacques de Vaucanson designed a number of things, the most notorious of which was an almost anatomically correct duck that could walk, quack, and waddle like a duck.
  — National Geographic, 11 Dec. 2016
• As penguins squawk in the background and waddle around on small ridges, Boehme and his team look for seals to tag with sensors that will track the layer of warm water that’s thought to be melting Thwaites.
  — Stephen Witt, WIRED, 25 June 2019