Definition of sitting duck
: an easy or defenseless target
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Examples of sitting duck in a Sentence
The tourists were sitting ducks for local thieves.
those stupid comments just made him a sitting duck for comedians
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The new bases were sitting ducks, American planners sniffed, and could be taken out quickly in an actual conflict.
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For several years, high school grads such as Leos were sitting ducks for the Selective Service.
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No worries that a steady diet of memorizing content and drilling on low-level procedures produces young adults who are sitting ducks in the innovation economy.
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Just like that, The Saviors are sitting ducks and get chewed to pieces.
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Without such protections, people are sitting ducks for larvae in sand or soil.
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Staying over one spot makes geosynchronous satellites sitting ducks but also protects them.
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As the Luftwaffe strafes 400,000 sitting ducks on the beach, a desperate evacuation begins.
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But the Aucilla mastodons weren’t just sitting ducks for human hunters.
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First Known Use of sitting duck
1942
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Definition of sitting duck for English Language Learners
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: a person or thing that is easy to hit, attack, trick, etc.
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