cakewalk

Example Sentences

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Clark held on for a wire-to-wire victory at 4-under par, but it wasn’t the cakewalk it was shaping up to be entering the final round.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

Ireland were hanging on by their fingernails, before a second-half rally threatened to turn a cakewalk into a contest.

From Barron's • Feb. 5, 2026

If this is to be a series to be remembered - rather than a forgettable cakewalk - then the Wallabies have to make it so.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2025

With that sentence over my head, I’m not gonna say that it was a cakewalk, because it wasn’t.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2024

I went by the cakewalk in a marquee festooned with many curls of flypaper.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly