Examples of shoo-in in a Sentence
a shoo-in for the position of secretary of state
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The Pretty Boy Realness category was a shoo-in for the traditionally handsome Rum Tum Tugger, who here appears in black pants and little else, and Labels seemed made for Macavity, who has a propensity for stealing goods and here sports a Telfar bag.
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026
Elsewhere, if Emmy voters are as into Pluribus as critics and TV nerds have been, Karolina Wydra should be a shoo-in supporting nominee.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 2 May 2026
This blanket omission marked an astonishing reversal of fortune for Adjaye, who had been poised to become the profession’s next international superstar and seemed a shoo-in to win the coveted Pritzker Prize.
—Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Now some people, or maybe just One People, might chuckle at that, thinking dictator Kim Jong Un’s FAILING Ryugyong hotel makes the One People’s library a shoo-in for Best in Show Vainglorious Architecture Awards.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
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Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026
Elsewhere, if Emmy voters are as into Pluribus as critics and TV nerds have been, Karolina Wydra should be a shoo-in supporting nominee.
—Joe Reid, Vulture, 2 May 2026
This blanket omission marked an astonishing reversal of fortune for Adjaye, who had been poised to become the profession’s next international superstar and seemed a shoo-in to win the coveted Pritzker Prize.
—Martin Filler, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
Now some people, or maybe just One People, might chuckle at that, thinking dictator Kim Jong Un’s FAILING Ryugyong hotel makes the One People’s library a shoo-in for Best in Show Vainglorious Architecture Awards.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
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“Shoo-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shoo-in. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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