shot in the dark
Example Sentences
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It had all the hallmarks of a gamble, a shot in the dark.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
It’s just a giant shot in the dark, and instinct.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2025
It was a "shot in the dark," Wang said, given that the two scientists had never conducted a study in humans.
From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2024
Yet Toyota isn’t taking a shot in the dark.
From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2024
It seemed like a shot in the dark, but, just to get Golan off my back, one afternoon I had my dad drop me at the library so I could check it out.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
