Example sentences for: hit-and-run

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

  • It's sound bite heaven for President Clinton's legal team, as all three papers' leads include the White House's characterization of the Starr investigation as a "hit-and-run smear campaign."

  • When Senator Benton said of McCarthy that he was a "hit-and-run propagandist of the Kremlin model," Mr. Acheson had filed the remark as an M-C-2, and dropped a note to Benton, "Bill, nice score today on McMenace.

  • Instead of indulging in the usual teary nostalgia about baseball (that means you, Ken Burns), Will considered it as a craft, explaining exactly why a manager calls a hit-and-run now and not on the next pitch, how a pitcher sets up his fastball, why a shortstop moves in a step for one kind of double play and out a step for another.

  • Together, these observations suggest a 'hit-and-run' scenario in which transposable elements may play a part in the origin of chromosome rearrangements, but are lost (either through deletion or transposition) by the time rearrangements reach high frequency or fixation between species [ 66].

  • The dialogue, much of it straight from the book, is full of terse humor (when a cop comes by to interrogate Vaughan about a hit-and-run, Catherine brushes him off: "Vaughan isn't interested in pedestrians").


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