How to Use hit the road in a Sentence

hit the road

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  • Airstream just made hitting the road in style more accessible.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 9 July 2026
  • Murgatroyd flew with the two youngest, with Chmerkovskiy hitting the road with their eldest.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026
  • Tire tread depth - Checking your tire tread before hitting the road is important, as low or no tread can lead to sliding.
    Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 15 July 2026
  • Tremaine, Johnny Knoxville, and their crew would spitball a kernel of an idea, and moments later hit the road to try it out.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 2 July 2026
  • Waymo’s latest announcement comes as the company confronts challenges that are arising as more of its cars hit the road.
    Jennifer Elias, CNBC, 8 July 2026
  • Hill will be hitting the road for a series of intimate acoustic performances across the globe this July.
    Christine Imarenezor, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • When the stainless-steel pickup hit the road in 2023, Tesla was the world’s biggest electric-car company.
    Tim Levin, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
  • When Gilla Band hit the road, their front-of-house guy drives, Fox also engineers, Kiely sells merch, and Faulkner runs tech.
    Laura Snapes, Pitchfork, 9 July 2026
  • The Royals will also hit the road for some holidays and other festivities in 2027.
    Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 16 July 2026
  • Junior hockey had returned to some normalcy coming out of the pandemic, allowing Forton and his staff to hit the road for more in-person scouting.
    Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 27 July 2026
  • Google Maps and Waze are top services that are incredibly useful when the time comes to hit the road, but the two have radically different feature sets.
    Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 13 July 2026
  • Gas prices have increased this week in the Miami and Fort Lauderdale areas as drivers get ready to hit the road for the long Fourth of July weekend.
    Miami Herald Staff Report, Miami Herald, 29 June 2026
  • Kylie Kelce is hitting the road and getting out of the house with Olympian Ilona Maher and her sisters, Olivia and Adrianna, to Disneyland Paris.
    Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
  • The mentor-student dynamic strikes the right chord, but the best scenes — besides when the Batmobile hits the road — occur between Bruce/Batman and Alfred (Michael Caine).
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
  • The Royals finish their unorthodox homestand, which was affected by the World Cup, with a rare Monday day game, then hit the road for a series in Baltimore and then New York.
    Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026
  • Outdoing themselves, the group hit the road again in 2024, wrapping up their Hackney Diamonds tour just before Jagger’s 81st birthday in July.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
  • Whether it's stored inside an apartment, packed into an SUV for a weekend getaway, or loaded into an RV before hitting the road, its compact folding frame makes transportation and storage remarkably simple.
    New Atlas, 2 July 2026
  • The show is scheduled to end Sunday and hit the road for a European tour, beginning with a star turn in the September opening of the glitzy new Faro Santander museum in Spain, Mexico’s onetime colonial overlord.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026

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