How to Use hit/strike home in a Sentence

hit/strike home

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Definition of hit/strike homenext
  • The way that Scott, Foy and Bell play these sequences hit home, in every sense of the phrase.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Trea Turner hit home runs in the third and fifth innings.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 6 June 2023
  • What the 49ers need to do: Defense has to hit home with that high-dollar front four.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But no story has hit home for Barber-Just, 49, like this one.
    — Brooke Hauser, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • That’s a lesson the Decatur 101 program in Georgia tries to hit home.
    — Sara Lang, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
  • The uncertainty hit home for them last month when Jay Park lost her job.
    — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Grichuck was one of three Angels who hit home runs off Braves starter Charlie Morton.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
  • This week, Murray did something that truly hit home for him.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
  • Kiper said Carter is worth a roll of the dice at six for a general manager who's hit home runs in both his at-bats at the draft so far.
    — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The Other Sister was a film that really hit home for Meagan Good.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • One of those seniors is Nia Sisneros, who has now hit home runs in three consecutive matchups.
    — Lia Assimakopoulos, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • For countries collectively born from the rubble of the former Soviet Union, the war in Ukraine has hit home in more ways than one.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Ohtani, 29, who has been likened to the legendary Babe Ruth for his ability to hit home runs and pitch at elite levels, has also helped lift sponsors’ share prices in the past.
    — Aya Wagatsuma, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • In the second game, Ohtani hit home runs in the second and fourth innings — giving him a league-leading 38 homers on the season — to help the Angels take a 7-2 lead through four innings.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Santana’s home run marked the second time this season that he’s hit home runs in three consecutive games.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 12 May 2024
  • For one of the rescuers, identified only as Yasemin, Adnan's survival hit home hard.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2023
  • For one of the rescuers, identified only as Yasemin, Adnan’s survival hit home hard.
    — Justin Spike, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • This hit home, against your team, in your backyard, eerily close to where Tua Tagovailoa had been knocked out earlier in the season. Enough.
    — The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Less than five months later, the coronavirus pandemic hit home, causing schools to shut down.
    — David Tarrant, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2020
  • After drawing a walk in the first inning, Burger hit home runs in the fourth and fifth innings for the fourth multi-homer performance of his MLB career.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2024
  • At a recent game, the opposing team walked Bell intentionally and the next two batters hit home runs.
    — Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The intensity of the battle has hit home for Sister Monica Clare.
    — Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • With Goldberg and his home videos no longer at the helm of the series, the show has struggled to find creative stories that hit home in the same fashion as the heartfelt ones based on its creator’s adolescence.
    — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a range of experiences, but clearly, the decisions these women made have hit home for a lot of viewers of The Golden Bachelor.
    — Zara Hanawalt, Parents, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The personal stories and feedback from residents hit home for Mellen who grew to enjoy working in the public sector.
    — Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Her remarks hit home with the crowd, which included such dignitaries as Royce Williams of Escondido.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
  • And that really hit home, the importance of community in creating all things that matter.
    — Diya Chacko, Orange County Register, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The pamphlet eventually consisted of 148 replies, but at least twenty-five were left out for space, which implies that a great proportion of Nancy’s dispatches hit home.
    — Sarah Watling, Time, 13 July 2023
  • Washington's historic run to the college football national championship game has hit home big in Arizona.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The arc hit home for A.J., as part of the storyline derived from her real-life husband, fashion designer Nathan Andersen, being diagnosed with cancer.
    — Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 4 Mar. 2023

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