How to Use the only game in town in a Sentence

the only game in town

noun phrase
  • Underdog best ball drafts are the only game in town right now.
    — Stan Son, The Athletic, 5 July 2024
  • For certain wavelength regimes, this will be the only game in town.
    — Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Neither is the World Cup the only game in town.
    — Mark Faithfull, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Grainge grew up in an industry in which labels were the only game in town.
    — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • As far as the only game in town goes, the Roam 2 still brings a pretty great one.
    — Parker Hall, WIRED, 20 July 2024
  • Hurricane Erin isn't the only game in town.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
  • But until somebody else builds a counter-system, which no one has yet, that’s the only game in town.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • For decades, there was no dispute — Nielsen’s measurement was the only game in town.
    — John Koblin, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2025
  • With the advent of the commercial space race, the government is no longer the only game in town.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 9 May 2026
  • Yet the major newspapers and broadcasters were the only game in town then.
    — Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2025
  • Once the only game in town, Stop & Shop’s dominance is under siege.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 4 Aug. 2024
  • This is a situation where inflation is now an emergent risk … and gold is the only game in town.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
  • If China hits its targets, Tiangong will be the only game in town, or to say orbit.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
  • But its version of startup capitalism isn’t the only game in town anymore.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune Asia, 30 June 2024
  • Thanks to a Supreme Court decision, Nevada wasn’t the only game in town.
    — Harry Enten, CNN Money, 11 July 2025
  • Thus far, the only game in town is a hefty shower turning thunderstorm over the immediate area.
    — A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
  • For actors and directors, spandex spectacle is the only game in town.
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • Microsoft is no longer the only game in town in generative AI.
    — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Musical entertainment isn’t the only game in town, which opens other avenues for leverage.
    — Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Deep Sentinel is also no longer the only game in town for professional monitoring.
    — PCMAG, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Embedded in their value is that the Padres are now the only game in town, literally, which engenders fan support.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That party fizzled out, but those casino-like plays are resurfacing for a day or two, feeding off the current bitcoin rally, which still feels like the only game in town.
    — Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • In 2001, Mirapex was the only game in town, but when the generics came out in 2010, most of us switched over.
    — J. Aaron Sanders, STAT, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Nvidia is still the only game in town for companies spending hundreds of billions in the AI arms race—and both the firm’s customers and investors are well aware of that.
    — Greg McKenna, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Despite several storms that tracked offshore to the east of the Mid-Atlantic, which are often favorable for some snow, rain has been the only game in town.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • For Dooley, who had dedicated his professional life to finding shipwrecks, Carisub was the only game in town.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
  • That is because El Niño isn’t the only game in town; other natural climate cycles and local influences also play a role.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 21 June 2023
  • With the reemergence of Turkey and Qatar as regional power brokers, the deal-making diplomacy of the hotel guys is now the only game in town.
    — Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • Related Stories The celebration of all things midcentury isn’t the only game in town.
    — Abigail Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2024
  • As a result, for students seeking real-world companionship and belonging, protest has increasingly become the only game in town.
    — Frederick M. Hess, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023

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