HIT in a Sentence

Learn HIT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

252 example sentences for HIT, such as:

1. You can't hit off the lid that way.
2. This is the place where the storm hit.
3. A new hit drama will be stagged next week.
4. Yet they did aim at them, and hit them too.
5. The weapon discharged when it hit the ground.

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 Meanings and Examples of HIT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hit
 v.  touch something with sudden force
 v.  have an unpleasant or negative effect on a person or thing
 n.  a connection made via the internet to another website
 n.  a thing or person that is very popular or successful
Classic Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
1  Then suddenly Melanie turned toward her and, with a cry, hit her across the shoulders with all her might.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  "I'll bet your pa never hit a darky a lick in his life," said Frank.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  You will get out of this buggy this time, or I will hit you with the whip.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  "I don't know which hit Beetrice Tarleton worse, losing her boys or her horses," said Grandma Fontaine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  Whether or not she hit him, she never knew, but the next minute the pistol was wrenched from her hand by a grasp that almost broke her wrist.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  And with a rush, "But I didn't care and I hit them."
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
7  Use a big window at the back, with a cyclorama of a blue that would simply hit you in the eye, and just one tree-branch, to suggest a park below.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  This peculiarity is most vividly hit by the French in the name they bestow upon that fish.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
9  True, one portrait may hit the mark much nearer than another, but none can hit it with any very considerable degree of exactness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
10  But in the foamy confusion of their mixed and struggling hosts, the marksmen could not always hit their mark; and this brought about new revelations of the incredible ferocity of the foe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.
11  Oh, I never hurt when I hit, except when I hit a whale or something of that sort; and this fellow's a weazel.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
12  Yet they did aim at them, and hit them too.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
13  Two Swedes had fell out of that bucket once, and hit the water, feet down.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
14  That was his answer, and it showed his mood; from now on he was fighting, and the man who hit him would get all that he gave, every time.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
15  Jurgis was not the mighty man he had once been, but his arms were still good, and there were few farm dogs he needed to hit more than once.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
Example Sentence: (157 in 11 pages)
16  You can't hit off the lid that way.
17  The weapon discharged when it hit the ground.
18  A new hit drama will be stagged next week.
19  A snowstorm hit the West today, bringing with it frigid temperatures.
20  This is the place where the storm hit.
21  Some banks also have a hit list of people whom they threaten to sue for damages.
22  If you don't aim high you will never hit high.
23  I had just got up to their boat when a strong wind hit us.
24  Goaded beyond endurance, she turned on him and hit out.
25  He was spitting blood after being hit in the mouth.
26  A police clampdown on car thieves hit a snag when villains stole one of their cars.
27  It was the worst storm to hit London this century.
28  He hit the mark when he became president of the class.
29  The coach hit his man with the flat of my sword.
30  The company has been hard hit by the drop in consumer confidence.