: sometimes successful and sometimes not : not reliably good or successful
Examples of hit-and-miss in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebSo these detection models are still really hit-and-miss.—Leah Feiger, WIRED, 6 Sep. 2024 These movies, targeted at the AARP crowd (Girls Trip this is not) almost totally rely on the chemistry of casting, and this is where The Fabulous Four lives up to its name with Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Megan Mullally and Sheryl Lee Ralph all trying to sock some hit-and-miss material home.—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 24 July 2024 While 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
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