cakewalk

Example Sentences

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Nonetheless, the U.S. insisted leading up to Thursday that the rematch wouldn’t be a cakewalk.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 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

“He ended up winning,” Kobe said, “but it was a battle to the end. It wasn’t no cakewalk for him.”

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024

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

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly