Waddles

Unusually, as The Apprentice waddles greasily back on to the BBC, similar quotes from Lord Alan Sugar's new interviewees point with awful accuracy, not to their drawn-out, painful firings but to a promising career overseeing the marketing of Alan's Sky boxes in Brentwood. ❋ Eva Wiseman (2010)

Just then, Kurt, the youngest of our three adopted ex-research chimps, waddles into the kitchen and upends a box of cereal, leaving a pyramid-shaped pile of Shreddies on the table. ❋ Tim Dowling (2010)

She hoists herself out of the car and waddles to the dumpster, lifts the lid and drops in the bag. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Once Jim has gone inside with the duck, the other ducks remain in the middle of the street, going around and around each other accusingly, angry toddlers pacing in waddles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The duo's six-channel video installation, A Voyage Of Growth And Discovery, follows Smith's alter ego of the last 30 years, Baby IKKI, as he waddles about in giant nappy, baby bonnet and obligatory shades through the psychedelic super-indulgence of the Burning Man festival in Nevada's far-flung Black Rock desert. ❋ Unknown (2011)

After finishing his apple, the porcupine waddles away, oblivious to the entertainment he's brought us. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Maria waddles a few paces ahead with her head stuck up straight and her belly full of tortillas Mr. Ehrler feeds her. ❋ Alexandra Berzon (2011)

Because every single time I bring a group into the barn, Henrietta waddles up, meanders into the middle of the group, finds one person, walks over and says hello, then strolls with us as we make our way down the long aisle, meeting friend after friend. ❋ Kathy Stevens (2011)

Russell Beale suggests both stocky peasant – he waddles and has a faint West Country burr – and zealot. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He waddles over to find one of the few apples left that has fallen off the tree, not twenty feet from us, sits down and contently starts eating. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the Professor waddles down to the encampment, the Kid is put in mind of "God stopping by to visit the Garden of Eden." ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

When the space goose waddles up to me and says "hey what's up?" ❋ Mike Lynch (2011)

Beyond the highway, down a slope of leafless oak and hickory, the river waddles to its fate in curves as clumsy as the handwriting of a child. ❋ William Doreski (2011)

He struggles out of the cab then waddles to the back of the truck while I retrieve my bag from underneath the scattered bottles of water. ❋ Roger Weaver (2011)

But then, while you're you're not looking, your brain waddles off like a giddy toddler down a hill, trying to catch the sounds with outstretched and clapping hands. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As for common sense, if it quacks like a duck, and waddles like a duck, well ... jane ❋ Unknown (2009)