: sometimes successful and sometimes not : not reliably good or successful
Examples of hit-and-miss in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebWhile the band’s performances are spirited on A Kind of Magic, the songs are hit-and-miss, and Queen sometimes sounds lost in David Richards and Reinhold Mack’s cavernous production.—Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 May 2024 Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge Like the image generation, the paragraph rewriting can be a little hit-and-miss, introducing different meaning to sentences by swapping out words.—Tom Warren, The Verge, 21 Feb. 2024 Arizona’s Jayden de Laura The hit-and-miss quarterback had plenty of hits in Arizona’s 31-24 overtime loss at Mississippi State, accounting for three touchdowns and 386 total yards.—Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 10 Sep. 2023 Showers are likely to remain very hit-and-miss with measurable amounts mainly less than a quarter of an inch.—David Streit, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023 Instead of hit-and-miss iterative processes, Toney and his team are trying to uncover the fundamental chemistry and physics that make our next-generation energy storage and generation systems operate.—IEEE Spectrum, 5 Apr. 2017 Friday and Saturday will bring another chance for hit-and-miss storms.—Kxas-Tv (nbc5), Dallas News, 6 June 2023 After a hit-and-miss couple of years for Team17, the publisher has returned to form by giving another outstanding debut a platform–this time, the first title from New Zealand studio Black Salt Games.—Matt Gardner, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023 Our yoga class attendance can be hit-and-miss.—Jessica Geltstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2023
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