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sitting duck

NOUN
  1. a defenseless victim

How To Use sitting duck In A Sentence

  • This makes the whole colony a sitting duck for a man with a gun.
  • Considering that an armed sitting duck was better off than the plain old garden-variety sitting duck, he parlayed a Ruger.30 Blackhawk to add to his utility belt.
  • Without my gun, I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.
  • Out in the open, the hunter is a sitting duck for unseen wild animals.
  • He must be stressed to the eyeballs, and a sitting duck for karoshi (death from overwork). The Sun
  • I feel like a sitting duck for crime working the night shift at the convenience store.
  • He lambasted the law's critics for alleging that limiting the use of force in making arrests would make police sitting ducks.
  • She was using my slipstream to save her the energy of facing the wind resistance, very tactical but it made her a sitting duck for weaponry.
  • Without the gun, I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.
  • COOPER: Walter, you used the term sitting ducks in describing U.S. troops. CNN Transcript Aug 27, 2003
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