sitting duck
Example Sentences
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In my opinion, I could be a sitting duck.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026
All the time, Stern feared his boat was a sitting duck for Venezuelan security forces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
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
As the avian flu continues to threaten poultry farms and wildlife, are factory farms a sitting duck?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2024
Now he was waddling around in the little house like a sitting duck.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
