Examples of hit-and-miss in a Sentence
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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.
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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
Available in theaters and on myriad streaming platforms, the international assembly may be a hit-and-miss affair, but never outstays its welcome.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
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
Available in theaters and on myriad streaming platforms, the international assembly may be a hit-and-miss affair, but never outstays its welcome.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Mar. 2023
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First Known Use
1897, in the meaning defined above
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“Hit-and-miss.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit-and-miss. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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hit-and-miss
adjectiveˌhit-ᵊn-ˈmis
: sometimes successful and sometimes not : haphazard
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