Hitting is an English word with synonyms like striking or touch. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Hitting in a sentence
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Hitting meaning
A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object.
Using Hitting
- The main meaning on this page is: A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object.
- Useful related words include: hit, striking, touch, touching.
- In the example corpus, hitting often appears in combinations such as: hitting the, after hitting, before hitting.
Example sentences (20)
He kept hitting him in the back of the head and, right now, I can call Hrgovic a professional in hitting on the back of the head because in every fight in every round, he’s hitting the guy on the back of the head.
This overhead hitting allows them to play smashes, clears (hitting the shuttlecock high and to the back of the opponents' court), and drop shots (hitting the shuttlecock softly so that it falls sharply downwards into the opponents' forecourt).
After a decade spent legally hitting humans with as much viciousness as possible, James Anderson has transitioned to hitting a certain object with just as much ferocity.
But Bader popped up to shortstop, and Isiah Kiner-Falefa, pinch-hitting for the left-handed hitting Bauers against left-hander Colin Poche, struck out to leave the tying run 90 feet away.
He smirked at Cam Reddish after hitting one three, got to bite on two fakes before a mid-range jumper and stared at the Lakers bench after hitting another triple in the fourth.
Hitting left or right on the D-Pad while hitting the SP button will cause Marian to fire a rocket, for example.
After spending last season as their Triple-A hitting coach, Mallee was promoted to the major-league staff under new manager Craig Counsell as an assistant hitting coach.
DJ Stewart, celebrating after hitting a homer during the Dodgers series, has given the Mets a lift as their left-hitting DH.
I'm not sure if anyone thought it would come this soon, but I was continuously just pushing myself and making sure that I was hitting my objectives in a smart way, not rushing the process, making sure I was hitting all my benchmarks.
Jeff Glenister for North Leigh was in sensational form, hitting two sixes in his 15-doll haul (6-3-6) with teammate Neil Pratley hitting a dozen dolls in an unusual way (5-1-6).
Kazarian went on a roll next, hitting cutters all over the place, and then capped it off by hitting one on Moose for a pin, but Moose kicked out.
The witness said she was in a hotel overlooking the scene and was alerted to the incident by a “loud bang”, adding that the collision involved “a car hitting a pedestrian and then hitting a house”.
Whether you are hitting the gym or just hitting the streets, you need a good deodorant at your side.
Abreu Extends Hitting Streak, White Sox Beat RoyalsJose Abreu extended his hitting streak to 18 games with a two-run double, Eloy Jimenez had three hits and the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals Friday night.
AMC Theatres just showed its support for hitting theaters, despite its aside with HBO Max, stating it was in “fully onboard” with Warner Bros decision are currently the only major live-action movies hitting theaters during the final days of 2020.
Awarding points simply for hitting the upright — “especially over 50 yards” — would be like awarding a basket for hitting the rim on a three-point shot, even though the ball didn’t go through the net.
Big moments include Orton hitting moves onto everyone on the announce desk, and Ali hitting a Spanish Fly on Andrade and splashing onto him while he was on the outside holding a ladder.
If you don’t know how close you’re hitting it to the hole, your total number of putts isn’t relevant—just like hitting lots of greens in regulation doesn’t always mean a tour player is scoring well.
With his teammates taken out, Xavier is able to gets his team back into by taking out Page outside of the ring, hitting Moose with some big aerial moves and then hitting Alexander with some strong kicks.
Hitting coach John Mabry and assistant hitting coach Bill Mueller were also let go.
Common combinations with hitting
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hitting the 47×
- after hitting 27×
- before hitting 12×
- and hitting 7×
- hitting streak 6×
- hitting one 5×
- hitting coach 5×
- of hitting 5×
- is hitting 5×
- hitting an 5×