How to Use cakewalk in a Sentence

cakewalk

noun
  • She expected the election to be a cakewalk.
  • Reducing the state budget is not going to be a cakewalk.
  • Your next marathon could be a cakewalk.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Times that would make today seem like a cakewalk.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Times that would make today seem like a cakewalk.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Don’t expect a cakewalk, though.
    — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 6 Nov. 2025
  • There aren’t many cakewalks in the NFL.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Game 3 proved the Hawks are no slouch and this wouldn’t be a cakewalk series.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • But what happened in the middle was nothing close to a cakewalk.
    — Scott Fowler, charlotteobserver, 6 May 2018
  • However, the passage of the cold front is no cakewalk for some.
    — Pedram Javaheri, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • That doesn’t mean the entirety of the final month will be a cakewalk.
    — Eric Nehm, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • What’s more, the Colts’ home game against the Texans is far from a cakewalk.
    — James Boyd, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • So, yeah, the first six games of the 2018 season will be no cakewalk.
    — Pete Grathoff, kansascity, 25 Apr. 2018
  • But the path to a repeat county title will be anything but a cakewalk.
    — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2022
  • All of that was a cakewalk compared to having to inhabit the mind of a killer for six months.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 May 2022
  • When Joe Biden was vice president, his first trip abroad was a cakewalk.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
  • Next week is something of a bear, with five games in seven nights and none of them exactly a cakewalk.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Apr. 2021
  • With my first lift out of the way, and having at least one good snatch on the board, the rest of the session felt like a cakewalk.
    — Melissa Melvin-Rodriguez, Charlotte Observer, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The last four years against the Jayhawks haven’t exactly been a cakewalk.
    — Dallas News, 10 Dec. 2020
  • So, of course Sunday’s win-and-in matchup at home against the five-win Saints was no cakewalk.
    — Mike Jones, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Not every game in Oklahoma’s streak was a cakewalk, of course.
    — USA TODAY, 7 June 2023
  • Grimes’s own tragedies made George Bailey’s travails seem like a cakewalk.
    — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Going forward, the rest of the season should be a relative cakewalk for these two teams.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2017
  • For the cakewalk, placards with pictures of animals are placed in a circle on the ground.
    — Kimberly Fornek, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2019
  • My goal is just to walk offstage after that monologue and feel like, OK, the rest of this show’s a cakewalk.
    — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The United States has never been a cakewalk for Black people.
    — Britni Danielle, Essence.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • There are no real cakewalks in March and – as Thursday proved – upsets are always on the cards.
    — Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The most difficult stretch in the Horned Frogs’ schedule is over but that doesn’t mean the rest of the way is a cakewalk.
    — Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Homewood doesn’t have a cakewalk first rounder with a good Springville team taking on the Patriots.
    — Dennis Victory, al, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The joy in the thing seemed to be in what Republicans assumed was a cakewalk to victory.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 16 Aug. 2024

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