sitting duck
Example Sentences
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A house is usually the biggest sitting duck for estate-recovery claims.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
“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
Marked up under his right eye, Yarde was not quite a sitting duck yet but was not winning rounds either - perhaps guilty of showing the champion too much respect.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
“I knew I was a bit of a sitting duck if I wasn’t careful,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Now he was waddling around in the little house like a sitting duck.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
