How to Use crapshoot in a Sentence

crapshoot

noun
  • To be clear, all of it is a crapshoot.
    — Stewart Mandel, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Most fritters — done in round balls — are a crapshoot at best.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2021
  • That’s always a crapshoot on set.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Awards are a real crapshoot, for lack of a better term.
    — Jeff Conway, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Six through 40 is going to be a crapshoot.
    — Mike Sando, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Ravens-Bills was a crapshoot; still think the better team lost.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 23 Jan. 2025
  • In the crapshoot that is our weather, climate change loads the dice.
    — National Geographic, 12 Jan. 2023
  • In other words, fish runs are always a crapshoot, as are prices.
    — Tim Bradner, Alaska Dispatch News, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Over the longer term, IPOs are a crapshoot.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • The lottery is kind of a crapshoot anyways.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
  • If Tampa is running away with its game, this will be more of a crapshoot.
    — Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2024
  • Sure, the postseason might still be a crapshoot once the games begin.
    — Neil Paine, New York Times, 17 June 2025
  • The Giants don’t want all this work to come down to a one-game crapshoot against a wild-card team.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Sep. 2021
  • Today’s a bit of a crapshoot, which is why friends, partners and others might catch you off guard.
    — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Honestly, a lot of it was instincts, and a lot of it was a total crapshoot.
    — Ashley Leestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
  • At times friendly or fickle, the attitude is a bit of a crapshoot.
    — Jenna Scatena, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Amplify that across Germany, and the vote is set to be a crapshoot.
    — Bloomberg.com, 8 Feb. 2018
  • This gets rid of the current do-or-die wild-card game, which basically is a crapshoot.
    — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
  • What shouldn’t be a crapshoot is predicting that the Texans will have one of the top picks.
    — Matt Young, Chron, 27 Apr. 2021
  • But navigating the options (and false claims) can be, well, a crapshoot.
    — Elizabeth Svoboda, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Finding saves over the final two months of the season is going to be a complete crapshoot.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Lamppa’s believes that the phenom's prospects are somewhat of a crapshoot.
    — Duncan Larkin, Outside Online, 15 May 2015
  • After the first selection, the first half of the first round appears to be a complete crapshoot.
    — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024
  • Even the best teams realize that winning the trophy is something of a crapshoot.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 June 2025
  • The draft is always a crapshoot, but having back-to-back swings at an elite prospect raises the odds of hitting on at least one.
    — Dallas News, 5 July 2022
  • Renting—from both the tenant’s and the landlord’s perspective—is a bit of a crapshoot.
    — Bert Stratton, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2020
  • Making it through a full season in the midst of a pandemic was always going to be a crapshoot.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2020
  • McCord says every dose of Delta-8 is a crapshoot.
    — Andy Sheehan, CBS News, 22 June 2026
  • The Avalanche without Gabriel Landeskog are a crapshoot.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2026
  • While in a sense the post-season is a crapshoot, the A’s have come up snake eyes for fully one third of a century.
    — Tony Blengino, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022

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