How to Use shoo-in in a Sentence

shoo-in

noun
  • At first blush, Gabe Evans would seem like a shoo-in for this race.
    Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 24 June 2024
  • So does that mean Williams is a shoo-in for the top spot in the upcoming draft?
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The 22-year-old should have been a shoo-in for admission.
    Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The choice of the award’s latest recipient proved to be a shoo-in.
    Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Thus, a horse or a person who is an easy winner is known as a shoo-in.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024
  • Susie’s got people on her roster that no one was a shoo-in.
    Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023
  • Yet the 59-year-old Harris is hardly a shoo-in to replace Biden.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
  • Surely if Kelce is allowed back, Swift would be a shoo-in?
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
  • There will be at least one goalie that doesn’t make this team that right now would be a shoo-in No. 1 for Canada.
    Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
  • This celebrity and royal-worn sneaker brand is a shoo-in for style, class, and comfort.
    Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
  • With numbers like that, The Lincoln Lawyer seems like a shoo-in for a season 3 renewal.
    Terri Robertson, Country Living, 3 Aug. 2023
  • If there was a contest for girls obsessed with their exes, Olivia Rodrigo would be a shoo-in for the crown.
    Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
  • The song has garnered the most streams for Cowboy Carter thus far and could be a shoo-in for best country (or pop) duo/group performance.
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Bell seemed a roster shoo-in during the spring workout program as a rookie.
    Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • While Biles appears to be a shoo-in for the Olympics, the four other teammates and two alternates are yet to be determined.
    Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 May 2024
  • Are John Wick 4 and Mission: Impossible 7 shoo-ins for next year?
    Vulture, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But Poker Face was also supposed to be a shoo-in for the Comedy Series list.
    Time, 12 July 2023
  • Many people believed that Gerwig and Robbie were shoo-ins.
    Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • If this were Cannes, Besson’s latest would be a shoo-in for the Palm Dog, canine cinema’s highest honor.
    Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The world of Pandora is visually arresting and makes the film almost a shoo-in for the Best Visual Effects award, at least.
    Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Voters who, by dint of geography and race, were assumed to be shoo-in Democrats were having second thoughts.
    E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Twenty-three years later, the sequel seems like a shoo-in for a nom, boasting Aardman’s trademark mix of British wit and amusing stop-motion work.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Whatever effect Harris may have on their passage, her presence on the ticket does not make either amendment a shoo-in.
    Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2024
  • A little more than two years ago, Argentine President Mauricio Macri looked like a shoo-in for reelection.
    Bruno Binetti, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2019
  • In 2013, for example, many observers were convinced that the hard-liner Jalili — the same man on the ballot this time and the supreme leader’s choice at the time to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president — was a shoo-in.
    Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • The most surprising snub, however, is definitely the White Stripes, who were thought to be a shoo-in in their first year of eligibility.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 3 May 2023
  • By focusing on the basics, he’s created one of the best-handling driving games in recent memory–and a shoo-in for the indie GOTY shortlist.
    Matt Gardner, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Koepka, of course, is a shoo-in, and Phil Mickelson and Joaquin Niemann are in excellent shape after finishing their second rounds at 4-under.
    Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Strauss should be a shoo-in, except for one thing: his early association with Oppenheimer, who has fallen out of favor with the government.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
  • The district is considered a shoo-in for Republicans this November.
    Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 19 Sep. 2024

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