How to Use low-hanging fruit in a Sentence

low-hanging fruit

noun
  • The truth is, there's always a way to find the low-hanging fruit.
    Ellevate, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Right now, think of San Diego as low-hanging fruit for the Rams.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The good news is that there is still some low-hanging fruit.
    WSJ, 14 July 2021
  • There are vast gains to be made there, some low-hanging fruit.
    Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Choose your moves wisely and don't go for the low-hanging fruit.
    Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 6 June 2022
  • How to get rid of that barrier is sort of the low-hanging fruit.
    Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 9 May 2021
  • The next low-hanging fruit is people who hunt with dogs.
    Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 25 June 2018
  • But what if your higher self didn't reach for the low-hanging fruit?
    Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
  • Like the proverbial low-hanging fruit, job prospects were ripe for the picking.
    Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2021
  • Each day brought more bad news, courtesy of the press, which had a field day with all low-hanging fruit.
    SI.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • But sometimes even that low-hanging fruit needs to be picked.
    Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 2 June 2020
  • In any case, there’s not much low-hanging fruit to be found here, in the form of cost reduction.
    Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Look for low-hanging fruit and give yourself some easy wins.
    Kelly Stiefel Arias, Kansas City Star, 19 June 2024
  • There's some low-hanging fruit, too, for cities like ours that don't have a restaurant tax.
    Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 23 Dec. 2019
  • At times, the targets of its jokes are pretty low-hanging fruit.
    Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 18 July 2023
  • Foodies, celebrity chefs, the filthy rich—this is low-hanging fruit for a satirist.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Nov. 2022
  • In other words, for China the low-hanging fruit is gone.
    Neil Irwin, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Drag queen backup singers would help, to dispense with the low-hanging fruit.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Chris Christie took the low-hanging fruit he was handed and chucked it straight at Ramaswamy’s head.
    Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Some of it, but certainly not all of it, felt like low-hanging fruit.
    Robyn Bahr, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Mar. 2022
  • But for track forecasting, the low-hanging fruit has been picked.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The chances are that the low-hanging fruit of foul outputs will likely be kept in check by such AI techniques.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 Feb. 2023
  • Let’s ease into the new year by bringing down some low-hanging fruit.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 2 Jan. 2018
  • But sometimes the low-hanging fruit is also the sweetest fruit.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Harvesting the cloud’s low-hanging fruit still won’t be easy.
    Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 3 June 2021
  • This was the equivalent of low-hanging fruit—easy gains, in other words.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 6 July 2020
  • These savings are low-hanging fruit for a city with a $7 billion budget gap, but the union won’t budge.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2023
  • This is low-hanging fruit and easy for the district attorney.
    Evan Sernoffsky, SFChronicle.com, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The owner of a farm stand now restocks during the day instead of at night to avoid giving the killer low-hanging fruit.
    Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Then, at the last minute, Congress went looking for money to fill government coffers, and of course the low-hanging fruit was our retirement savings.
    Ed Slott, Fortune, 26 June 2024

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