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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
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  • 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
  • Without my gun, I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.
  • She was a sitting duck out here all by herself!
  • Without the gun, I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.
  • Nancy knew she'd be a sitting duck when she raised the trap door.
  • But she was gone, leaving Regin and Natalya trapped like sitting ducks, still wearing their torques, while Pravus soldiers began prowling the ward. Dreams of a Dark Warrior
  • Given its lowly valuation, a growing number of brokers believe that the car salvage specialist is a sitting duck for a predator.
  • Suddenly Sakamoto spotted the ship, she was like a sitting duck at dockside.
  • A zebra or horse without a hoof is a sitting duck for predators.
  • Being left in front, Morley Street looked a sitting duck approaching the line but scrambled home.
  • The destroyer Express took us in tow, but the towline parted so she came alongside and took the troops and wounded on board and left us a sitting duck.
  • Raskin was proceeding gingerly, aware that Macintosh was a sitting duck for cancellation.
  • Nancy knew she'd be a sitting duck when she raised the trap door.
  • For example, and this is just for openers, you can be dumb as a dodo, crazy as a coot, silly as a goose, a sitting duck, or simply a dupe from de huppe, the hoopoe, an Old World bird, said to be more stupid than most. Hugh Rawson: Fowl Talk for the Holidays
  • The government conscripts had no fight left in them and they were sitting ducks. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
  • Drug companies are sitting ducks for governments to expropriate their property.
  • After patting his mount on the neck and pulling his ears, Culhane was a sitting duck to the enterprisingly-ridden Kahalah, who stormed past him near the finish to win by a length.
  • The government conscripts had no fight left in them and they were sitting ducks. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War
  • This makes the whole colony a sitting duck for a man with a gun.

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