How to Use lame duck in a Sentence

lame duck

noun

• The President was a lame duck during the end of his second term.
• The Browns played half a season as a lame duck in Cleveland.
  — Mark Craig, Star Tribune, 27 Mar. 2021
• But the lame duck House isn’t the one that chooses the next president.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 1 Nov. 2020
• One challenge is that Ryan is a lame duck who will be gone in six months.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 20 June 2018
• Losing to a likely lame duck coach, though, would sour things for the third-year coach.
  — Brian Pedersen, ajc, 5 Nov. 2017
• And that means most of Wisconsin's lame duck laws will stand.
  — Benjamin Yount, Washington Examiner, 10 July 2020
• The big question is now this: Will a lame duck speaker be the same draw on the fundraising circuit?
  — Daniel Bice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2018
• Kerr had been a lame duck coach up until this point, which is rare for a figure of his stature.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2024
• Not wanting to be lame duck, Patterson left on the spot.
  — Dallas News, 7 Jan. 2023
• So what happened in the final hours of the lame duck session, where Democrats helped spike a bill that might have done that?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 Dec. 2022
• Will he -- before this lame duck is done, will he be held in contempt of Congress for that?
  — ABC News, 20 Nov. 2022
• In nature, a lame duck is a weakling, a bird that can’t keep up with the flock and is easy pickings for predators.
  — Oliver Staley, Quartz, 7 Nov. 2020
• Doing the show as a lame duck will offer challenges (and that’s being kind).
  — Bob Raissman, New York Daily News, 8 June 2024
• So Afghanistan has had its day and bitcoin is now a dead or lame duck in its biggest market.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• The bill passed through the Senate and House during the final day of the lame duck session earlier this month.
  — Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
• With nearly 4 years to go: Is Gov. Holcomb already a lame duck?
  — Shari Rudavsky, The Indianapolis Star, 11 June 2021
• That could mean the bill won’t get attention until the lame duck session, the time between the election and the start of the new Congress.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 19 Sep. 2024
• The result reduced the leaders of the bloc’s biggest nations, Germany and France, to lame ducks.
  — Max Hastings, Twin Cities, 12 June 2024
• Obama was a lame duck president, while Trump is in his first term.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 12 Oct. 2020
• Host Tony Reali asked his panel if Rodgers was a lame duck as a result.
  — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2021
• So, is Vladimir Putin a khromaya utka (lame duck) on the way to retirement six years from now?
  — Leon Aron, National Review, 16 Feb. 2018
• Johnson and Buchanan were the lamest of lame ducks, in their final year in office and not running for re-election.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 11 Oct. 2019
• Democrats may use the lame duck session between now and January, when a new Congress is sworn in, to head off some of the fights.
  — Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• DeWine will speak as the state legislature meets for a marathon lame duck session.
  — cleveland, 17 Dec. 2020
• But the lack of action to this point means his only remaining hope might be in a lame duck session.
  — Mike Memoli, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2022
• This problem is very likely to be compounded by the fact that he would be elected as a lame duck.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
• Greene's contract was set to expire in January 2023, and he was widely seen as a lame duck as the end of the contract neared.
  — Bennett Durando, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2022
• The response was muted in part because some of the leaders in Lima are lame ducks, due to be replaced this year.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• And one lame duck state senator in the state of Nebraska could determine who is the president.
  — ABC News, 22 Sep. 2024
• Yet, as a lame duck with limited time left in office, Biden lacks the leverage required to bring hostilities to a close.
  — Jeffrey A. Friedman, Foreign Affairs, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024