How to Use easy pickings in a Sentence
easy pickings
plural noun-
So Ossoff should be easy pickings for the GOP.
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Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
1 Aug. 2025
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Although the moon is up this week, some of the brighter stars and constellations will remain easy pickings.
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Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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Picking Fruit Off the Ground Apples that have fallen to the ground are easy pickings, right?
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Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
28 Aug. 2025
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Most seasons slow down massively in the home stretch, but this one, with its unpredictable flips, has sustained its pace even longer than last year’s, when everybody not named Chelsie ended up a puppet or easy pickings.
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Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
27 Sep. 2025
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Mercury is on the cusp of disappearing — and may already be impossible to see from your location — but Venus, Jupiter and Saturn remain easy pickings in this pre-dawn parade.
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Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Each summer, a high concentration of bears congregate along the Brooks River as salmon migrate upstream to spawn, creating easy pickings for the mammals who need to pack on the fat ahead of hibernation.
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Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Sep. 2025
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