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How to use hit in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb, noun, adjective

Hit means to administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile. Example: “One boy hit the other.”

Examples of hit by meaning

verbTo administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

  • One boy hit the other.
  • He tried to hit me but I dodged the blow and went out to plot revenge.1922-1927, Frank Harris, My Life and Loves
  • I hunted him for half a hour, aiming to learn him to hit a man with a table-leg and then run, but I didn't find him.1934, Robert E. Howard, The Slugger's Game

verbTo come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

  • The ball hit the fence.

verbTo strike against something.

  • I can't get anything to hit at that distance.

verbTo activate a button or key by pressing and releasing it.

  • Hit the Enter key to continue.

verbTo kill a person, usually on the instructions of a third party.

  • Hit him tonight and throw the body in the river.
  • FREDO: Mikey, why would they ever hit poor old Frankie Five-Angels?1973, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II (screenplay, second draft)

verbTo attack, especially amphibiously.

  • If intelligence had been what it should have been, I don't think we'd ever have hit that island.

verbTo affect someone, as if dealing a blow to that person.

  • Their coffee really hits the spot.
  • I used to listen to that song all the time, but it hits different(ly) now.

verbTo manage to touch (a target) in the right place.

  • I hit the jackpot.
  • You can't hit the high notes in that song!

More sentences with hit

  • If the player fails to hit the ball on, it's a foul.From the entry on
  • We really hit it off on the first date, so we decided to meet the week after.From the entry date
  • Good thing I didn't hit send on that resume; I just noticed a bad typo.From the entry send
  • He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.From the entry or
  • If you're hit by a power cut, you'll lose all of your changes since your last save.From the entry save
  • The grounder hit the bag and bounced over the fielder’s head.From the entry bag
  • I meant to pause the picture, but hit the rewind by mistake.From the entry rewind
  • We hit a nasty shear on approach and had to go around.From the entry shear
  • He needed a lot of power to hit the ball out of the stadium.From the entry power
  • They had to stop short to avoid hitting the dog in the street.From the entry short
  • She's gotta do that song, she outright smokes when she hits the refrain!From the entry smoke
  • Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.From the entry game
  • The car swerved off a road, hit a wall, and fireballed as the petrol tank exploded.From the entry fireball
  • He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.From the entry side
  • The first batter hit the ball into the corner for a double.From the entry batter
  • The wall collapsed when it was hit by the wrecking ball.From the entry collapse
  • Just before hitting the guardrail the driver regained control and pulled out of the skid.From the entry skid
  • I thought the ball hit the line, but the umpire said it was out.From the entry out
  • The police officer has excellent aim, always hitting the bullseye in shooting practice.From the entry aim
  • In Kerbal Space Program, you stage away used-up parts of your rocket by hitting the spacebar.From the entry stage
  • After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"From the entry smart
  • With no hearts in the river and no chance to hit his straight, he folded.From the entry fold
  • Some marine salvagers might be interested in these unusual mag hits.From the entry mag
  • The pitcher beaned the batter, rather than letting him hit another home run.From the entry bean
  • The bus went through a railway barrier and was hit by a train.From the entry barrier
  • Travis hit a boundary to seal the match on the last ball of the over.From the entry boundary
  • If you throw the ball thus, as I’m showing you, you’ll have better luck hitting the target.From the entry thus

Meaning of hit

  1. verb To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
  2. verb To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.
  3. verb To strike against something.

Full definition of hit

Questions about hit in a sentence

How do you use hit in a sentence?
Hit is used as a verb, noun and adjective. For example: “One boy hit the other.”
What is a short sentence with hit?
“I hit the jackpot.”
What does hit mean?
Hit means to administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hit (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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