walkover

Example Sentences

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Former light-middleweight world champion Hannah Rankin: "I see Eubank coming out on top. However, I think it's going to be a lot harder than people think. It's not going to be a walkover for him."

From BBC

What is unusual about the war in Ukraine is that this is a conventional war, and one fought at high intensity This isn't a walkover.

From Salon

What had been catapulting leaps, swings and slides become slower, steadier acrobatics: a supported back walkover; a flip that sticks its landing, rather than springing into the next move.

From New York Times

Putin expected a walkover in Kyiv in the war’s first week and had to retreat.

From Washington Post

One of the more puzzling aspects of Russia’s miscalculation is that the FSB had received information suggesting that war with Ukraine would not be a walkover.

From Washington Post