like a sitting duck
Example Sentences
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“I was literally like a sitting duck, just getting taken south by the current going way off course,” he told Hawaii News Now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Wolff has accused Masi of "a freestyle reading of the rules and it left Lewis like a sitting duck", and of "robbing" Hamilton of the title.
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2021
Wolff accused Masi of "a freestyle reading of the rules and it left Lewis like a sitting duck", adding: "Robbing him in the last lap of the race is unacceptable."
From BBC ● Dec. 16, 2021
Should we expect Iran to behave like a sitting duck?
From Time Magazine Archive
Now he was waddling around in the little house like a sitting duck.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
