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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a sitting target" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone or something that is vulnerable or easy to attack or criticize.
Example: "In the debate, the candidate became a sitting target for his opponent's sharp criticisms."
Alternatives: "an easy target" or "a vulnerable target".
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"This is a sitting target," she explained.
Today they seem a sitting target for denunciation.
Putting it on the road or rails briefly is better than leaving it as a sitting target, Mr. Abraham said.
It's a very, very intimidating situation: you're a sitting target, with people running around trying to climb on.
It could be Obama will decide he's tired of being a sitting target and will produce something new.
The mass gathering of supporters in stadiums across France is clearly a sitting target for any terrorist, homegrown or otherwise.
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With his patrician demeanour, Macmillan was a bigger sitting target in the early Sixties than the grouse he liked to blow away off the moors, and the taboo had been broken.
Federer doesn't dismiss his vulnerability, understanding he is the sitting target in the carnival dunk tank.
Sending Americans back to a war where they were sitting targets allows the greatest military in the world to succumb to the asymmetric warfare tactics of terrorists and insurgents.
On top of that, he whisks Rachel, her son and her sister off to a remote cabin in the woods, where they become sitting targets.
Police officers were stationed a line in front of the police station and, Belmar said, were sitting targets.
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