How to Use gimme in a Sentence

gimme

noun
  • For the last three years, there was no such thing as a gimme win.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2021
  • There were no first-time gimmes on Tuesday.
    — Barry M. Bloom, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • That seems to me like a gimme for any president to go and do that.
    — Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
  • The days of the early rounds being gimmes for the top seeds are over.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • These weren’t gimmes, either; five of them came over close contests.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Mahomes first from just off the fringe hits a beauty to gimme range, that’s a birdie.
    — Riley Hamel, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • Stivers was right that the race should have been a GOP gimme.
    — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Mar. 2018
  • The Clippers had to win this game, which looked on paper like a gimme.
    — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • And San Jose State has hardly been a gimme.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Only a road game at Ohio State could be a gimme during that run.
    — Don Markus, baltimoresun.com, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Those should be gimmes, and the Spurs have not taken advantage of them.
    — Staff Report, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Jan. 2018
  • This sounds like such a gimme, but honestly the networks should do an event like this, like, once a week.
    — Suzy Exposito, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020
  • As Colts fans know, there are very few gimme-games inside the division.
    — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Oct. 2020
  • Even Njoku, who had been immune to criticism to that point, dropped a gimme.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 15 May 2017
  • Despite waiting years for the chance, the decision wasn’t a gimme.
    — Meghan Montemurro, chicagotribune.com, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Halloween season was a gimme, and as soon as this story is published, the song will be out too.
    — Ed Blair, Chicago Reader, 25 Oct. 2017
  • And once the Bruins get through that gauntlet, there isn’t a gimme left on the schedule.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 14 Sep. 2024
  • As well as Oregon State is playing, the Huskies are no gimme.
    — oregonlive, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Not so long ago the Blue Hens were a gimme to advance to the semifinals.
    — Charles Hollis, al, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Instead, Huggins will miss the first three games next season, all of which are likely to be gimmes.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 10 May 2023
  • An unbeaten season is always a gimme.
    — Tom Mulherin, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Bodies moved with it, leading to open 3s and gimme 2s around the rim for active teammates.
    — Zach Osterman, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Feb. 2023
  • In a friendly round, gimmes and mulligans make life easier.
    — Don Mal, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025
  • No game is a gimme in the NFL, but the Browns should be favored in all of those games.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 4 Nov. 2020
  • There are no gimmes in the NFL and the Browns’ first eight games are certainly not that.
    — Dan Labbe, cleveland.com, 2 July 2019
  • Another gimme first-rounder from the Big Ten is Ryan Ramczyk.
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
  • Bhatia’s chip set up a gimme to force a playoff and complete a 5-under 31 over the final nine holes.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The ball climbed up a ridge on the green and stopped 2 feet short of the flag, leaving Woods with a gimme that put him in red numbers for the first time.
    — Paul Newberry, chicagotribune.com, 7 Apr. 2022
  • But rather than send on kicker Justin Tucker for a gimme extra-point attempt, the Ravens rolled the dice.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 5 Dec. 2021
  • There are no gimmes in the playoffs, but meeting the winner of the Steelers-Texans matchup is the best-case scenario.
    — Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 4 Jan. 2025

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