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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• The most surprising snub, however, is definitely the White Stripes, who were thought to be a shoo-in in their first year of eligibility.
  — Al Shipley, SPIN, 3 May 2023
• Koepka, of course, is a shoo-in, and Phil Mickelson and Joaquin Niemann are in excellent shape after finishing their second rounds at 4-under.
  — Scooby Axson, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2023
• Strauss should be a shoo-in, except for one thing: his early association with Oppenheimer, who has fallen out of favor with the government.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023
• Eovaldi, quite possibly a shoo-in already, only helped his case Saturday.
  — Shawn McFarland, Dallas News, 2 July 2023
• This song is a dramatic, emotional, annoying, definitively ’80s earworm, and was therefore a shoo-in for the Best Original Song category.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
• Since announcing his campaign in 2022, the former president has looked like a shoo-in for the Republican presidential nomination.
  — Jonathan Limehouse, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• As history has proved time and again, assuming a woman is going to be a shoo-in for anything (even the actress category) is never a good idea because to succeed, women have to defy all manner of expectations while also meeting every one.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024