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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