How to Use hit the streets in a Sentence

hit the streets

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  • Only 19 people were in a new class of cadets that just hit the streets.
    Libor Jany, Star Tribune, 19 June 2021
  • And as plows hit the streets, they were quickly penned in by traffic and hampered by cars drivers had abandoned on the roads.
    oregonlive, 23 Feb. 2023
  • The companies did not say exactly when the vehicles would hit the streets.
    Diksha Madhok, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
  • By the end of the recent class, all participants were pedaling, but most weren’t ready to hit the streets.
    Taylor Dolven, BostonGlobe.com, 18 June 2022
  • The star hit the streets in a straight-leg pair of leather trousers with a classic camel blazer and a white tee, elevating the look in two easy steps.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 4 Oct. 2020
  • But record-low mortgage rates caused a run on North Texas residences as buyers hit the streets looking for new homes.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Believing the result to be fraudulent, Belarusians hit the streets in protest.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2020
  • As recently as 2019, Sunday Parkways hit the streets five times per year.
    oregonlive, 8 May 2023
  • Parsons recently finished an album due to hit the streets July 11.
    Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Charli and Dixie D'Amelio recently hit the streets of Japan, taking some adorable pics for the 'gram.
    Briannah Rivera, Seventeen, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Instead, when a hostage situation heats up, the CIA operatives in the film hit the streets.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • Many Peruvians who sat out recent protests say they might be tempted to hit the streets if there were a march focused specifically on corruption.
    Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Like the latter, the Havoc will have a limited-production run, but the company hasn't said exactly how many will hit the streets.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 21 Dec. 2022
  • In the days after Floyd’s death, Nezhad volunteered as a street medic as thousands of protesters hit the streets demanding justice.
    Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Millions of online posts blamed virus control barricades for delaying rescuers, and Urumqi residents hit the streets to protest their months-long lockdown.
    Dake Kang and Huizhong Wu, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Dec. 2022
  • Another 100 or so people — many of whom just a few weeks earlier had been ordered to work from home and avoid unnecessary outings — would hit the streets.
    M.l. Elrick, Detroit Free Press, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Last month, for instance, the duo hit the streets of New York City in matching masks, turning a stroll around the block—stroller in tow—into a full on fashion moment.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2020
  • People will hit the streets to demand reparations for African Americans whose ancestors were enslaved for centuries in this country.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 17 June 2022
  • Android 13 has recently hit the streets, and with it, Google is raising the minimum requirements for Android phones.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Women have since abandoned their hijabs, cut their hair and hit the streets alongside male supporters in protest, calling on the regime to remove its oppressive policies and address human rights abuses.
    Caitlin McFall, Fox News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Devastated by the seemingly never-ending pandemic, Pierre turned her struggle to motivation and hit the streets.
    Alex Pena, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2020
  • Florida was at the beginning of a wave of bills across the country after millions hit the streets to protest police brutality and racial discrimination in the wake of Floyd's death.
    USA Today, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Unfazed by the threat of potential backlash in her incoming year as a guard at her dream school, the University of Connecticut, Paige even hit the streets to protest the killing.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 14 Dec. 2022
  • To get kids back in class, district administrators and counselors worked the phones and hit the streets on Friday to identify students who had missed too much school, failed to reenroll or never enrolled in the first place.
    Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The new team hit the streets in January, focusing on areas of the city where gun violence has been the worst and trying to build relationships to prevent retaliatory shootings.
    Zusha Elinson, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Because of the pandemic, McGuire didn’t hit the streets to connect with voters like rivals Adams and Yang, who made multiple stops a day at bodegas, schools and sports arenas.
    Bill Allison, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2021
  • And on January 11, what began as a plan sketched out in text messages hit the streets when thousands of students across New York City public schools walked out of their school buildings.
    Pia Ceres, Wired, 17 Jan. 2022
  • The monitoring team’s recent assessment reviewed background checks into the department’s 148th Recruiting Class, which hit the streets in March.
    Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 23 June 2022

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