How to use "hit" in a sentence

Suddenly, my feet hit a pile of loose stones and I nearly fall to the ground.

I will need to hit it hard

I hit the boulder as hard as I can and the piece of rock falls onto my trapped arm

I hit the rock hard against the boulder

I pick up the black rock and hit it as hard as I can against the boulder

11.32 am Finally, I feel the knife hit rock on the other side of my arm

A cannonball hit it, but it didn't move

I saw the harpoon leave his hand and hit the giant creature right in its back

"I'm afraid the whale hit the ship, sir

I felt something small hit my head.

"I think I was hit by a rock."

I looked out of the window, and there was a 25-foot giant squid! It moved close to the Nautilus and it hit the window with its long tentacles

Who was this woman? Was it his wife? My leg hit a table and Captain Nemo turned around.

Something hit me on the head and that's the last thing I remember.

'Oh!' Her head hit the top of the house and she put the bottle down quickly.

Everything was quiet for a short time, then something hard hit her arm.

Suddenly, her head hit her foot.

Some of them hit the Duchess and the baby

'You'll hit its pretty nose!'

And hit him when he cries:

It didn't hit her, but she left the room quickly.

'She hit the Queen,' the Rabbit said

But then some boys hit me, and my Mom didn't want me to play with them again

We could hear shooting all round us, but they didn't hit us

They were shouting unpleasant things, and then somebody threw a tomato at Colonel Gooch and it hit him in the face

Oh, I threw my medal away, OK - but it hit somebody really important! One of the President's men! So they threw me into prison.

Cosette said nothing, speechless with fear as the woman raised her arm to hit her

Someone fired a gun and a bullet hit a wall just behind him, but he didn't care.

Neither did he see, at the moment the soldier fired, a young boy dressed in rags jump in front of the gun and fall wounded as the bullet meant for Marius hit him in the hand.

As the two friends moved back towards the door, fighting off the soldiers, a bullet hit Marius in the shoulder

When Marius had been hit, Valjean ran to him at once, grabbed him before he fell and carried his unconscious body into a small alley behind the wine shop

And look, the blood behind his ear is where she hit him before she escaped."

He was hit by a car last year while he cycled across Brow Top road

She says her husband, the deceased Mr Dawson, hit her there several times

There are pictures of these injuries, but there is no proof that Mr Dawson hit Mrs Dawson

One hit to the head.

But can you do it? Can you hit someone? Can you hit a burglar?

When I was in the van, it stopped, and I hit one of the guards, took his keys and ran

And he thinks of all the times he watched his father hit his mother.

God, he wishes he could remember last night: not just the girl's expression when he hit her, but everything.

Jesus, is this it? Did he really do something to that girl? More than hit her once? Did he do what they said on the radio? Was she dead?

He tries not to remember the expression on Greg's face as the bullet hit him in the back.

At first they only hit him

You can hit me, or you can try to scare me, but I never cheat!"

A wave of shock hit her

As she walked home, loneliness hit her

'A ship's hit the rocks in the bay,' Maxim called out

Without warning, Maxim went up to Favell and hit him hard

I wished that Maxim had not hit him

'It's not going to hit us.'

The bag does not hit Natalie, but it hits Nathan.

If Magyck! Was a hit and packed the showroom for four or five years, as sometimes happened with successful Vegas shows, she'd be a multimillionaire by the end of the run

"We got a hit, kid!" Joel said, and he hugged her fiercely, planting a wet kiss on her cheek.

But you and me, we made it into a hit."

At forty-six, he was the most successful producer in Las Vegas, with twenty years of hit shows behind him

Now they seemed to have shaped a hit show together.

At a few minutes past eleven o'clock, a secretary from San Diego put five dollars in a slot machine and hit a jackpot worth $495,000; word of that even reached backstage in the showroom

"We got a hit, kid," Joel assured Tina once more.

They cheered one another on those rare occasions when one of them hit a really large jackpot; and when one of them died, the others went to the funeral en masse

He was interested primarily in learning more about the mind that could create a work like Magyck! He had seen less than one-fourth of the program, yet he knew it was a hit - and far superior to others of its kind

The cast of Magyck! Took several bows, then the crew, then the orchestra, all of them flushed with the excitement of being part of an unqualified hit

A hit show..

And when all of a sudden someone does hit it big, especially on a slot machine where it can happen in a flash, they're so surprised they pass out

"Michael, in case you haven't heard, Magyck! Is a hit

A big hit

In freshly pressed slacks, a crisp blue shirt, a patterned tie, and a gray sports jacket, he might have been a professional hit man uncomfortably gotten up for the baptism of his Mafia don's grandchild

If you're looking for a freelance hit man, someone who deals in carload lots of illegal weapons, maybe a mercenary who can put together a small expeditionary force for an overseas operation - you can find all of them here

"In case you didn't know it, since the Cold War ended and California took such a big hit in the defense downsizing, Nevada has more Pentagon-supported industries and installations than any state in the union

Danny said he was sure Elmer wasn't going to come back because he'd been hit and killed by a truck

If he made a clean hit here, in the crowded casino, he would be assured of a promotion.

In two seconds, it was in his bloodstream, and the first seizure hit his heart.

The Cessna hit an air pocket, dropped three hundred feet with a sickening lurch, and then soared to its correct altitude.

I don't think it's a good idea to hit Stryker and the woman in a public place like an airport."

At the same time, he was hit by a wave of revulsion

The jet hit an especially bad patch of turbulence

I wasn't hit that hard

I was so young and naive, I assumed "network-approved writers" meant that each of these writers would be among the finest in the TV business, on the planet, in the universe, the elite of the elite, the crS232; me de la crS232; me, superexcellent wordsmiths incapable of spinning any story that wasn't the top, the ower of Pisa, the Mona Lisa, the Louvre Museum, the Colosseum! Network-approved writers! I was in the lap of God, in the hands of ministering angels, and there could be no doubt whatsoever that we would have a hit with Help, My Feet Are Stuck to the Floor in Dean Koontz's Theater or whatever it would be called.

He was contemptuous of the book he was paid to adapt, of me, and of the entire TV industry, to which he would never return (he assured me with a glower) after his first smash-hit film

Then I realized that the Martians could hit the top of Maybury Hill with their Heat-Ray because they had cleared the college out of the way.

The flashing light was blinding and confusing, and thin rain hit my face as I drove down the slope.

It hit a church tower, knocking it down, then moved on and fell into the river out of sight.

These broke when they hit the ground - they did not explode - and let out an enormous amount of thick Black Smoke

Realizing from his face that a fight was unavoidable, and being a good boxer, my brother hit him hard and knocked him back onto the wheel of the cart.

He heard the horse move forwards and then the third man hit him between the eyes

The man, who looked very well built, tried to move in closer, but my brother hit him in the face

And then a quick movement of the steamboat (which had turned to avoid being hit) threw him off the seat on which he had been standing

This hit its left side and sent up a black cloud that the ship moved away from

He held it pointing down, and a cloud of steam came up from the water as it hit the ship.

In another moment it had hit the sea, and a great amount of water and steam flew high in the air

The guns of the Thunder Child were heard going off one after another, and one shot hit the water close by the steamboat.

It went straight towards a second Martian, and was within a hundred metres of it when the Heat-Rav hit it

I was knocked across the floor and my head hit the oven

'It's hit this house and buried us under the ruins!'

I tried threatening him, and in the end I hit him

The bottle hit the floor and broke, and I stopped fighting and got up

I swung the hammer and hit him on the back of the head

Harris hit the tin, and so did George

I wanted to hit him, but I was only a woman, and I loved his wife so dearly!

As soon as she hit the ball, Billie Jean knew that she wanted to be a tennis player

Ruvimbo's husband hit her, and sometimes she had to sleep outside