How to Use crapshoot in a Sentence

crapshoot

noun

• All of this was starting to sound like a bit of a crapshoot.
  — Gigi Engle, Marie Claire, 28 June 2017
• That makes counting on the revenues a bit of a crapshoot.
  — New York Times, 20 Oct. 2019
• In the crapshoot that is our weather, climate change loads the dice.
  — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
• This is one of those rankings that is just a pure crapshoot.
  — Martin Holmes, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2022
• The Giants don’t want all this work to come down to a one-game crapshoot against a wild-card team.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021
• Most fritters — done in round balls — are a crapshoot at best.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• What if the future is one big crapshoot and we're all doomed to make mistakes?
  — Ira Wolfe, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• What shouldn’t be a crapshoot is predicting that the Texans will have one of the top picks.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 27 Apr. 2021
• Amplify that across Germany, and the vote is set to be a crapshoot.
  — Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• But the process is a crapshoot: Proteins are often drawn to, and altered by, the air-water inter- faces.
  — Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
• While in a sense the post-season is a crapshoot, the A’s have come up snake eyes for fully one third of a century.
  — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• In other words, fish runs are always a crapshoot, as are prices.
  — Tim Bradner, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Oct. 2017
• The baseball draft is probably the biggest crapshoot in all of sports, so the Astros haven't had all hits in the first round.
  — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 1 June 2018
• Honestly, a lot of it was instincts, and a lot of it was a total crapshoot.
  — Ashley Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• There haven’t been as many premier receivers over the last few drafts, and Sutton could land in the second round, but the back end of the first is a crapshoot.
  — Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• Renting—from both the tenant’s and the landlord’s perspective—is a bit of a crapshoot.
  — Bert Stratton, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2020
• But more than that, young players are always a crapshoot.
  — New York Times, 17 June 2019
• Also, the keys aren’t backlit, so using the Tab S4 keyboard at night is a crapshoot.
  — Stefan Etienne, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2018
• The winner advances the best-of-five division series, with the threat of the do-or-die wild-card crapshoot looming for the two losers.
  — Jared Diamond, WSJ, 30 July 2021
• The draft is always a crapshoot, but having back-to-back swings at an elite prospect raises the odds of hitting on at least one.
  — Dallas News, 5 July 2022
• At times friendly or fickle, the attitude is a bit of a crapshoot.
  — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
• Finding saves over the final two months of the season is going to be a complete crapshoot.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2021
• The Major League Baseball draft can be a crapshoot with almost a third of the first-round picks never even reaching the big leagues.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 15 July 2022
• The Nexus program, due to the constantly shifting OEMs building the products, was a crapshoot from year to year.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2017
• This gets rid of the current do-or-die wild-card game, which basically is a crapshoot.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
• How that crapshoot plays out depends on more than income.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
• Which makes chasing waterfowl here a bit of a crapshoot.
  — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 10 Mar. 2020
• But navigating the options (and false claims) can be, well, a crapshoot.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2020
• The postseason shapes up as a crapshoot, regardless of who’s there.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
• And while postseason baseball can be a crapshoot, as Friedman likes to say, the team is nonetheless in desperate need of answers.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 22 Aug 2024