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How to use sitting duck in a sentence

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Sentence Examples
Given its lowly valuation, a growing number of brokers believe that the car salvage specialist is a sitting duck for a predator.
She was using my slipstream to save her the energy of facing the wind resistance, very tactical but it made her a sitting duck for weaponry.
It doesn't matter if the human heavy tank can make itself invulnerable if it's just a sitting duck for air attacks.
The subeditor sits, is a sitting duck you might say, between the writer and the page or section editor.
Perhaps the deep-pocketed corporation was the real victim, some grotesque combination of sitting duck and cash cow?
A zebra or horse without a hoof is a sitting duck for predators.
She was a sitting duck and didn't even know she was in danger.
Considering that an armed sitting duck was better off than the plain old garden-variety sitting duck, he parlayed a Ruger.30 Blackhawk to add to his utility belt.
Instead, I come only with the message that we missed a sitting duck as far as agricultural trade reform is concerned.
The destroyer Express took us in tow, but the towline parted so she came alongside and took the troops and wounded on board and left us a sitting duck.
Theoretically, a person who has just finished a jog should be a sitting duck for hungry mosquitoes: producing heaps of CO2 and sweat, lots of heat loss, and plenty of lactic acid.
Examples from Classical Literature
There were three eggs in the inaccessible cliff-nest, and he brought me one, which I tried in vain to hatch under a sitting duck.
Six great green eggs, stolen from a sitting duck which had belonged to the ill-fated Pierce, were the staple food.
A weaving target has a chance, but a target standing motionless is a sitting duck and his life hangs by a hair.
If any of the Company ships sight us, we'll be a sitting duck.
There is a very dangerous time when the driver is a sitting duck.
Indeed, to a page such as this Glanmor Griffiths is not so much a sitting duck, as the ugly duckling sprawled out on a chaise longue with a bad case of cramp.
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