sitting target

noun

1. Also called (informal): sitting duck. a person or thing in a defenceless or vulnerable position

Example Sentences

It took no time for the fight to spark into life as Dubois doubled up on his jab but it was clear that Usyk wasn't going to be a sitting target.

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One boy late for class was locked out of his classroom and struggled to get back inside, out in the hallway where he’s been taught that he is a sitting target, knocking on the door, trying to convince his teacher asking “Who is it? Who is it?” that it was Zach, and not a gunman, my colleague Dan Morse reported.

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Triggered by a vision of an injured elk in his living room, Lewis takes us back to the ill-fated event: A stroke of dumb luck leads the venturesome youths to an encounter with a sitting target, a cluster of elk bulls.

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Because vultures feed communally at a carcass, they are a sitting target for poachers, who can wipe out hundreds of birds at a time.

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But she can look back on a gritty, at times excellent campaign, correcting the impression she had been lumbered with as a sitting target on the clay of Roland Garros after four first-round exits in a row.

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