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:

  • 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.

  • And when it stumbles onto a good subject for a series, like Ken Burns' history of baseball, it turns the show into a seminar on racism and labor relations, not the hit-and-run and the spitball.

  • 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].

  • 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.

  • 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.


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