Examples of 'sitting duck' in a sentence

Meaning of "sitting duck"

The phrase 'sitting duck' is often used metaphorically to describe someone who is easily and vulnerably exposed to danger or attack. It implies that the person is in a vulnerable or defenseless position, unaware or unable to escape from a potential threat or harm
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  • An obvious or unconcealed target.

How to use "sitting duck" in a sentence

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I do not want to be a sitting duck if they show up.
I am not going to sit here and be a sitting duck.
With such a sitting duck in the finals.
I look at you and see a sitting duck.
We are a sitting duck as long as we are tethered to the runabout.
I would be like a sitting duck out there.
The sitting duck is still sitting.
There happens to be a sitting duck right in my car.
I am sick of wallowing about here like a sitting duck.
I feel like a sitting duck out there.
You set yourself up like a sitting duck.
We would be a sitting duck in that car.
So while the girls are playing sitting duck.
They would be a sitting duck during an aerial attack.
That would make him a sitting duck.

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Makes you a sitting duck for the cops.
Out in the midfield you were a sitting duck.
I will be a sitting duck out there.
But you do not have to be a sitting duck.
There is a sitting duck right in my car.
I can not just be a sitting duck.
I am like a sitting duck in customer service.
Our turn to find a sitting duck.
You are sitting duck out here.
You do not want to be a sitting duck.
I was a sitting duck for blackmail.
You are gonna be like a sitting duck.
I am a sitting duck up here as well.
A minister with secrets is a sitting duck for blackmail.
Sitting duck out here.
You are gonna go play sitting duck in a jail cell.
But there is something worse than a sitting duck.
We do not play that sitting duck shit anymore.
There is a thin line between privacy and being a sitting duck.
You would be a sitting duck in there.
I do not want to be a sanctified sitting duck.
He will be a sitting duck up there.
Whoever wins the match will be a sitting duck.
I was like a sitting duck in there.
It was the definition of a sitting duck.
I am a sitting duck in this place.
So that leaves one sitting duck.
I am a sitting duck out here.
Then you will be a sitting duck.
I am a sitting duck out there.
I knew that would be a sitting duck.
We are a sitting duck down here.
I would rather not be a sitting duck.
He was a sitting duck for anyone who wanted to kill him.
I am pretty much a sitting duck here.

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It was almost like sitting inside a huge lamp
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