Example sentences for: hit-and-miss

How can you use “hit-and-miss” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "It's one of those comedies where everything works," writes Roger Ebert (the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few find the film spotty ("likable albeit hit-and-miss"--Kenneth Turan, the Los Angeles Times ), but most agree this ranks with Martin's and Murphy's best comic works.

  • To a Western ear, the most predictable of language traits, perhaps, is the well-advertised Japanese use of r for our l . Indeed, in my travels about Honshu during a three-month visit, I did hear “coinrocker,” “see you rater,” “Adurt Graphics” (dirty books), “blackwrrants” (hit-and-miss rendering of black walnuts), “Coffee Corombia” (a chain of coffee shops), and “Coconut Glove.”

  • But this has proven that if you go after something using some rational approach instead of hit-and-miss, you'll probably have more success than by the other method.”


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