How to Use sitting duck in a Sentence

sitting duck

noun

• The tourists were sitting ducks for local thieves.
• Just like that, The Saviors are sitting ducks and get chewed to pieces.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2018
• The rail crews were high-value targets and sitting ducks.
  — Nick Yetto, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
• If Bridgewater is a sitting duck because of the injuries, the Broncos will have to pull him.
  — cleveland, 21 Oct. 2021
• But the Aucilla mastodons weren’t just sitting ducks for human hunters.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
• Newgarden lamented his late tire choice, which left him a sitting duck over the final stint.
  — Jenna Fryer, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2022
• But then China and Russia showed such fat targets were sitting ducks.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
• But even with historic status, the gateway pecan remains a sitting duck.
  — Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2022
• If something has gone wrong within that process, the antennas are sitting ducks.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2020
• The Jets’ musical chairs up front could make Flacco a sitting duck for edge rushers like Odafe and Houston.
  — Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun, 10 Sep. 2022
• The uncertainty of being a sitting duck and all that pressure.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 21 Jan. 2022
• Another unit is stranded when the tires of their transport are shot out, leaving them sitting ducks.
  — David Wiegand, kansascity, 3 Nov. 2017
• For several years, high school grads such as Leos were sitting ducks for the Selective Service.
  — Roy Bragg, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Apr. 2018
• Felling that Rhodes, up there on his plinth like a sitting duck, was a fairly simple process, technically speaking.
  — Hedley Twidle, Harper's Magazine, 23 Nov. 2021
• Others couldn’t understand why the airship — a sitting duck, or at least a gently floating one — wasn’t simply taken out by the Air Force.
  — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023
• At Tiananmen, the protesters were gathered in a large public square like sitting ducks where they could be easily mowed down.
  — Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2019
• This is what public health experts have assured us would happen: People in detention centers are sitting ducks for the spread of this virus.
  — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2020
• Your company was a sitting duck for this type of situation.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Sep. 2017
• Tom Savage has been a sitting duck in recent weeks playing behind a substandard line.
  — Greg Rajan, Houston Chronicle, 10 Dec. 2017
• Without such protections, people are sitting ducks for larvae in sand or soil.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
• All of us are sitting ducks and utterly dependent on outside help for survival.
  — Mayyu Ali, Time, 3 Apr. 2020
• Without an active alarm system, a museum with breakable windows and fences is just a sitting duck.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 25 Nov. 2019
• The new bases were sitting ducks, American planners sniffed, and could be taken out quickly in an actual conflict.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• Staying over one spot makes geosynchronous satellites sitting ducks but also protects them.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 17 Jan. 2018
• Even food retail’s giant sitting duck, Walmart, is forecast to see pre-tax profits increase by a cumulative 6% over the next three years.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• Hours of prolonged exposure to the sick leaves medical professionals sitting ducks to a virus that has no vaccine, and to which humans have no immunity.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 24 Mar. 2020
• Now, Shelton feared, all those satellites overhead had become so many huge, unarmored, billion-dollar sitting ducks.
  — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 June 2018
• Sometimes that made him a bit of a sitting duck when opponents went looking for retaliation after a questionable play.
  — Will Larkin, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2019
• Meanwhile, as the global smartphone market grows saturated, Apple has not remained a sitting duck.
  — Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2017
• But this performance suggested the Ravens are not sitting ducks against every good outside receiver just because their best cornerback, Jimmy Smith, is gone for the season.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 18 Dec. 2017

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024