How to Use gimme in a Sentence

gimme

noun

• In all the combinations and permutations that would decide the Lakers’ play-in future, Friday night in Memphis was the gimme.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2024
• Stivers was right that the race should have been a GOP gimme.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Mar. 2018
• For the last three years, there was no such thing as a gimme win.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2021
• Christian Pulisic scored on a gimme in the third minute.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 Dec. 2022
• The days of the early rounds being gimmes for the top seeds are over.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• Three of the final five are at home, but none is a gimme.
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
• His first was a tap-in gimme at the easy par-5 second hole.
  — Carl Steward, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2017
• What has changed is that there are no more gimme games.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 4 Apr. 2021
• Hey @guskenworthy, gimme, gimme more on the slopes today!!
  — Marie Simoneaux, NOLA.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• No game is a gimme in the NFL, but the Browns should be favored in all of those games.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2020
• There are no gimmes in the NFL and the Browns’ first eight games are certainly not that.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 2 July 2019
• Not so long ago the Blue Hens were a gimme to advance to the semifinals.
  — Charles Hollis, al, 30 Apr. 2021
• The Clippers had to win this game, which looked on paper like a gimme.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• Mahomes first from just off the fringe hits a beauty to gimme range, that’s a birdie.
  — Riley Hamel, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
• As well as Oregon State is playing, the Huskies are no gimme.
  — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
• Gimme! Gimme! Gimme – more photos from the set of the Mamma Mia sequel.
  — Lindsay Kimble, PEOPLE.com, 26 Aug. 2017
• Those should be gimmes, and the Spurs have not taken advantage of them.
  — Staff Report, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2018
• Only a road game at Ohio State could be a gimme during that run.
  — Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 17 Aug. 2017
• The ball climbed up a ridge on the green and stopped 2 feet short of the flag, leaving Woods with a gimme that put him in red numbers for the first time.
  — Paul Newberry, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• Boise State doesn’t have a gimme left, and Nevada plays three of five on the road, where it’s been so-so this season.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Feb. 2023
• Even Njoku, who had been immune to criticism to that point, dropped a gimme.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 15 May 2017
• Despite waiting years for the chance, the decision wasn’t a gimme.
  — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2022
• Then in the second half, after Ebron dropped a strike from Brissett in the end zone, Vinatieri missed what should have been a gimme -- a 29-yarder.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 8 Sep. 2019
• This sounds like such a gimme, but honestly the networks should do an event like this, like, once a week.
  — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
• Bodies moved with it, leading to open 3s and gimme 2s around the rim for active teammates.
  — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2023
• As Colts fans know, there are very few gimme-games inside the division.
  — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Oct. 2020
• Canelo Alvarez deserves a break, a gimme fight of sorts.
  — Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021
• But rather than send on kicker Justin Tucker for a gimme extra-point attempt, the Ravens rolled the dice.
  — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 5 Dec. 2021
• Walker: This is the last gimme on the Ravens’ schedule against an opponent that could be in quasi-tank mode by this point.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 6 Sep. 2023
• The battle might've seemed like a gimme for Mraz, given the singer's generally stronger showings, but Williams' showmanship earned him the victory.
  — EW.com, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024