How to Use low-hanging fruit in a Sentence

low-hanging fruit

noun
  • Ort is the clear low-hanging fruit in the bullpen to be cut.
    — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 July 2025
  • 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
  • But even those tax breaks, which were thought to be low-hanging fruit, have supporters in the GOP.
    — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 21 Apr. 2025
  • 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
  • Icke isn’t opposed to low-hanging fruit.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Plaza Gate, as it’s now known, could be very low-hanging fruit for the feds.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • More journalism, less dumb low-hanging fruit, in other words.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • First, in terms of gerrymandering, the low-hanging fruit is already picked over.
    — Charlie Hunt, The Conversation, 8 Aug. 2025

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