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How to use sitting ducks in a sentence

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Having lost their income, water supply, main food source and doctors, the people of the village were simply sitting ducks.
Patrols outside the camp perimeter are designed to deter attacks and prevent the soldiers inside becoming little more than sitting ducks.
Drug companies are sitting ducks for governments to expropriate their property.
The police, instead of stopping the massacre, hurled tear-gas at the protestors converting them into sitting ducks.
I can see these people being potential sitting ducks, setting themselves up for this disease.
He lambasted the law's critics for alleging that limiting the use of force in making arrests would make police sitting ducks.
The children were like sitting ducks and had no way to protect themselves.
They'll be sitting ducks over there with just High Guards as protection!
If we do not protect and secure the area around it, our young men and women are going to be like sitting ducks.
As we sit here this evening, people are being shot like sitting ducks for the entire world to see.
Again, why does he just not admit that Canadians are sitting ducks because the government has repeatedly failed to take security seriously?
Under the circumstances, troops sent into a low intensity conflict area like that would be sitting ducks.
We're beaky or tigerish, doe-eyed, raven-haired, foxy, chicken-hearted, slow as a tortoise, meek as a dove, sheepish, dogged, old goats, goosey, sitting ducks or vultures.
We would be sitting ducks for whatever pathogens happen to wander in.
England's batsmen were nothing more than sitting ducks waiting to be picked off by these unerringly accurate marksmen.
As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine.
Why should Jonathan, Ruth and all the others have to stay out there like sitting ducks as policemen and their smug reporter friends took pot shots at them?
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