How to Use shoo-in in a Sentence

shoo-in

noun

• At first blush, Gabe Evans would seem like a shoo-in for this race.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 24 June 2024
• So does that mean Williams is a shoo-in for the top spot in the upcoming draft?
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• The 22-year-old should have been a shoo-in for admission.
  — Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The choice of the award’s latest recipient proved to be a shoo-in.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
• Thus, a horse or a person who is an easy winner is known as a shoo-in.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2024
• Susie’s got people on her roster that no one was a shoo-in.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 May 2023
• Yet the 59-year-old Harris is hardly a shoo-in to replace Biden.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2024
• Surely if Kelce is allowed back, Swift would be a shoo-in?
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
• There will be at least one goalie that doesn’t make this team that right now would be a shoo-in No. 1 for Canada.
  — Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2024
• This celebrity and royal-worn sneaker brand is a shoo-in for style, class, and comfort.
  — Alyssa Grabinski, Peoplemag, 12 June 2023
• What might have been a shoo-in for Chappell Roan will now be a more spirited contest.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2024
• With numbers like that, The Lincoln Lawyer seems like a shoo-in for a season 3 renewal.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 3 Aug. 2023
• If there was a contest for girls obsessed with their exes, Olivia Rodrigo would be a shoo-in for the crown.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
• The song has garnered the most streams for Cowboy Carter thus far and could be a shoo-in for best country (or pop) duo/group performance.
  — Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Apr. 2024
• Bell seemed a roster shoo-in during the spring workout program as a rookie.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The Chanticleers are coming off tough seasons, so this year’s promo is far from a shoo-in.
  — Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 30 Oct. 2024
• While Biles appears to be a shoo-in for the Olympics, the four other teammates and two alternates are yet to be determined.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 20 May 2024
• Are John Wick 4 and Mission: Impossible 7 shoo-ins for next year?
  — Vulture, 8 Mar. 2023
• But Poker Face was also supposed to be a shoo-in for the Comedy Series list.
  — Time, 12 July 2023
• Many people believed that Gerwig and Robbie were shoo-ins.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024
• White women make up a major part of the electorate and are in no way a shoo-in for any Democratic candidate.
  — Brea Baker, refinery29.com, 9 Oct. 2024
• If this were Cannes, Besson’s latest would be a shoo-in for the Palm Dog, canine cinema’s highest honor.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2023
• The two fighters who finished their opponents are almost always a shoo-in for the bonuses.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
• The world of Pandora is visually arresting and makes the film almost a shoo-in for the Best Visual Effects award, at least.
  — Keith Nelson, Men's Health, 10 Mar. 2023
• Voters who, by dint of geography and race, were assumed to be shoo-in Democrats were having second thoughts.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
• Twenty-three years later, the sequel seems like a shoo-in for a nom, boasting Aardman’s trademark mix of British wit and amusing stop-motion work.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 Dec. 2023
• The district was long considered a shoo-in for Republicans.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 31 Oct. 2024
• Whatever effect Harris may have on their passage, her presence on the ticket does not make either amendment a shoo-in.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 29 July 2024
• A little more than two years ago, Argentine President Mauricio Macri looked like a shoo-in for reelection.
  — Bruno Binetti, Foreign Affairs, 25 Oct. 2019
• In 2013, for example, many observers were convinced that the hard-liner Jalili — the same man on the ballot this time and the supreme leader’s choice at the time to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president — was a shoo-in.
  — Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, 27 June 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024