How do you use Hitless in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like unsuccessful or scoreless, plus the exact meaning.
Hitless in a sentence
Hitless meaning
- Without any successful songs.
- Having failed to make any base hits over a period of time, usually one game.
- Having no hits over a period of time, usually part of one game.
Synonyms of Hitless
Using Hitless
- The main meaning on this page is: Without any successful songs. | Having failed to make any base hits over a period of time, usually one game. | Having no hits over a period of time, usually part of one game.
- Useful related words include: unsuccessful, scoreless, goalless.
- In the example corpus, hitless often appears in combinations such as: hitless innings, hitless in, went hitless.
Context around Hitless
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 13 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hitless
- In this selection, "hitless" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, two, game, career, innings, streak and first stand out and add context to how "hitless" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 3 hitless innings and and 3 2 hitless innings with. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hitless" sits close to words such as abakaliki, abbasi and abductors, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hitless
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He remains hitless after three games. (6 words)
Five Cleveland relievers followed Allen’s outing with four hitless innings. (11 words)
He went 3⅔ hitless innings before allowing five earned runs without another out. (13 words)
Despite an early deficit, Adam Hall and his Biloxi Shuckers teammates battled back with three unanswered runs and the bullpen tossed 3.2 hitless innings with seven strikeouts in a 3-1 win over the Rocket City Trash Pandas at Toyota Field on Tuesday night. (45 words)
Senior right-hander Bryan Pazulski came on in relief of Mestre, firing two hitless innings with two strikeouts to collect the save and seal game one of the doubleheader for New Haven with a 4-1 win. (37 words)
Patick, who improved his record to 9-1 this season, kept the Wolfpack hitless for 6 1/3 innings before Dylan Fien broke up the no-hit bid with line single to center. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
First baseman is battling through a three-game hitless streak that is tied for his longest career hitless streak.
After a hitless first inning, players started to make contact and Biddle clapped softly for each hit.
He went 3⅔ hitless innings before allowing five earned runs without another out.
Ohtani pitched just two hitless innings amid bouts of weather-driven interruptions before the afternoon’s second rain delay cut his start short entirely.
Patick, who improved his record to 9-1 this season, kept the Wolfpack hitless for 6 1/3 innings before Dylan Fien broke up the no-hit bid with line single to center.
Pivetta held the White Sox hitless until Andrew Benintendi singled to lead off the fourth inning.
Senior right-hander Bryan Pazulski came on in relief of Mestre, firing two hitless innings with two strikeouts to collect the save and seal game one of the doubleheader for New Haven with a 4-1 win.
The Dodgers nearly succeeded on the latter, holding the major-league home run leader hitless with only a walk in four plate appearances.
The Padres were 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position and have gone hitless in that situation in four of their past six games.
Despite an early deficit, Adam Hall and his Biloxi Shuckers teammates battled back with three unanswered runs and the bullpen tossed 3.2 hitless innings with seven strikeouts in a 3-1 win over the Rocket City Trash Pandas at Toyota Field on Tuesday night.
Emerson Fleck pitched a scoreless and hitless seventh inning for Peninsula, walking one and striking out two.
Five Cleveland relievers followed Allen’s outing with four hitless innings.
He remains hitless after three games.
Pages’ move to right, with James Outman starting in center field, allowed the Dodgers to sit Chris Taylor, who entered Wednesday hitless in 30 at-bats over the previous 11 games.
Ryne Stanek and Edwin Díaz finished with hitless relief in the Mets’ fourth shutout — all from July 11 on.
The Brewers went hitless after the third inning, but still won comfortably thanks to that sizzling start.
A hitless night with runners in scoring position and seven runners left on base is not a recipe for winning games.
Guerra struck out three in 2 1/3 hitless innings, and Pagán worked around a walk in the ninth.
He had pitched three hitless innings for his major league debut in the New York Yankees’ 5-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday night.
In the Friday game, Dollard pitched two hitless innings and recorded four strikeouts.
Common combinations with hitless
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hitless innings 17×
- hitless in 13×
- went hitless 4×
- two hitless 4×
- was hitless 4×
- is hitless 4×
- hitless for 3×
- hitless streak 2×
- tossed hitless 2×
- and hitless 2×