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Example sentences for: hitting

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No one has as much club speed, and when he strikes a ball, it whistles, rockets out into space on a line and then, astonishingly, rises, as though hitting another gear, some kind of warp drive, before parachuting to Earth uncannily close to where Woods wants it to go.
The jet allegedly came within 130 feet of hitting the gondola after flying just 300 to 500 feet above the ground--well below its permitted altitude--for at least seven miles, bolstering the theory that the crew was flying recklessly.
Explainer was humming along just great, hitting the nails on the head, until the last sentence: "And a browser's source code is only a fraction of the size of that of an operating system."
Berger has told us that he thought about what might happen if the decision went against hitting al Shifa, and nerve gas was used in a New York subway two weeks later.
But young Americans aren't as helpless in the face of the tobacco-industry juggernaut as the Clintonites would like to imagine: Black teen-agers are already hitting the president's goals.