fair game

Example Sentences

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That’s gracious and true, but it doesn’t make her family fair game.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

"Sometimes before I thought it was better and sometimes I think VAR helps us to have a more fair game," he said.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

I have devoted my life to my music but this does not mean deeply personal things which I have a right to deal with in private are fair game.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

Yet it’s a mistake to conclude that everything about us is fair game for public consumption.

From Slate • Jan. 15, 2026

The locomotive and the last car of each train were marked with a striped banner of orange and black, indicating that the train was not fair game for air-planes—that it was carrying prisoners of war.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut