How to Use low-hanging fruit in a Sentence
low-hanging fruit
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The truth is, there's always a way to find the low-hanging fruit.
—Ellevate, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
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Right now, think of San Diego as low-hanging fruit for the Rams.
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
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The good news is that there is still some low-hanging fruit.
—WSJ, 14 July 2021
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There are vast gains to be made there, some low-hanging fruit.
—Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Oct. 2021
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Choose your moves wisely and don't go for the low-hanging fruit.
—Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 6 June 2022
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How to get rid of that barrier is sort of the low-hanging fruit.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 May 2021
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The next low-hanging fruit is people who hunt with dogs.
—Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 25 June 2018
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But what if your higher self didn't reach for the low-hanging fruit?
—Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
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Like the proverbial low-hanging fruit, job prospects were ripe for the picking.
—Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2021
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Each day brought more bad news, courtesy of the press, which had a field day with all low-hanging fruit.
—SI.com, 4 Oct. 2017
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But sometimes even that low-hanging fruit needs to be picked.
—Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 2 June 2020
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In any case, there’s not much low-hanging fruit to be found here, in the form of cost reduction.
—Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 11 May 2021
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Look for low-hanging fruit and give yourself some easy wins.
—Kelly Stiefel Arias, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2024
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There's some low-hanging fruit, too, for cities like ours that don't have a restaurant tax.
—Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2019
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At times, the targets of its jokes are pretty low-hanging fruit.
—Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
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Foodies, celebrity chefs, the filthy rich—this is low-hanging fruit for a satirist.
—A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Nov. 2022
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In other words, for China the low-hanging fruit is gone.
—Neil Irwin, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
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Drag queen backup singers would help, to dispense with the low-hanging fruit.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2024
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Chris Christie took the low-hanging fruit he was handed and chucked it straight at Ramaswamy’s head.
—Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
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Some of it, but certainly not all of it, felt like low-hanging fruit.
—Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2022
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But for track forecasting, the low-hanging fruit has been picked.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2019
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The chances are that the low-hanging fruit of foul outputs will likely be kept in check by such AI techniques.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
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Let’s ease into the new year by bringing down some low-hanging fruit.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Jan. 2018
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But sometimes the low-hanging fruit is also the sweetest fruit.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
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Harvesting the cloud’s low-hanging fruit still won’t be easy.
—Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 3 June 2021
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But then what happens is that there’s so much low-hanging fruit to address.
—Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024
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This was the equivalent of low-hanging fruit—easy gains, in other words.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 6 July 2020
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These savings are low-hanging fruit for a city with a $7 billion budget gap, but the union won’t budge.
—The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
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There was not a clear answer from Musk and Ramaswamy on that, the member said, but the takeaway was that there was low-hanging fruit — such as instituting a federal hiring freeze at some agencies.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 5 Dec. 2024
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Disinformation and email hacks are now considered low-hanging fruit.
—Sam Sabin, Axios, 29 Oct. 2024
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