sitting target

noun

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

Words Nearby sitting target

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sitting duck
sitting on a powder keg
sitting pretty
sitting room
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sitting tenant
sitting trot
Sittwe
situate
situated

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How to use sitting target in a sentence

This, then, would be the moment at which to shoot them, when for four or five seconds they offered practically a sitting target.
Marie | H. Rider Haggard
Backing and coming ahead, we make little progress, but at least we present no sitting target.
Merchantmen-at-Arms | David W. Bone

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