How to Use the only game in town in a Sentence

the only game in town

noun phrase
  • For certain wavelength regimes, this will be the only game in town.
    Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Grainge grew up in an industry in which labels were the only game in town.
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
  • But until somebody else builds a counter-system, which no one has yet, that’s the only game in town.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Despite several storms that tracked offshore to the east of the Mid-Atlantic, which are often favorable for some snow, rain has been the only game in town.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Thus far, the only game in town is a hefty shower turning thunderstorm over the immediate area.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 2 July 2023
  • And through it all, the Taiwanese commitment to democracy has never been stronger: the people of Taiwan know that democracy is the lasting path and the only game in town.
    Tsai Ing-Wen, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2021
  • For actors and directors, spandex spectacle is the only game in town.
    Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 11 May 2023
  • That is because El Niño isn’t the only game in town; other natural climate cycles and local influences also play a role.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 21 June 2023
  • For many Palestinians who distrust Abbas and revile Israel’s recent actions, Hamas is becoming the only game in town.
    Aaron David Miller, Foreign Affairs, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But ultimately Apple has made an enormous amount of money off of taking a pretty decent-sized cut from mobile developers as kind of the only game in town.
    Quartz Staff, Quartz, 9 May 2023

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