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:

  • 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.

  • 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].

  • But Monica is road kill here, and Walters the latest in a series of hit-and-run drivers, and there is something sickening about the way we have watched this woman be knocked down again and again and again, yet still feel the need to vilify the object of our voyeuristic pleasure.

  • 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."

  • 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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