How to Use hit the skids in a Sentence

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• More borrowers are likely to hit the skids on their car loans this year.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2023
• Patrick is his former bestie (and her former lover) turned rival whose career hit the skids long ago.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024
• The shock jock and the cable TV provocateur have hit the skids.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2023
• Kelce revealed that Rudd had texted him, presumably as the season hit the skids.
  — Kansas City Star, 23 Dec. 2025
• Consumer sentiment has also hit the skids, although there were signs of some recovery to end last year.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 19 Feb. 2024
• New York hit the skids financially in those years, and the city’s safety net, already badly frayed, gave out.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2021
• As good as things looked for New England through two-plus quarters, the Patriots have hit the skids.
  — Christopher Price, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• Perhaps not coincidentally, fiction hit the skids around the same time.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 10 Nov. 2020
• After starting the season with six straight wins, the Islanders hit the skids, winning just one of their next 10 matches.
  — Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
• Teammates will wonder if Morris will replace Cousins with Penix should the Falcons hit the skids.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2024
• This season the show hit a turning point — the finale airs Sunday on TLC — and the family hit the skids.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
• At this point, the prospect of watching a film about an aging boxer whose life has hit the skids sounds as appealing as getting into the ring with Oleksandr Usyk.
  — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The spinning machines shut down, moved offshore, and Blackburn hit the skids in the 1970s, a poster child for destitute Britain.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2022
• California stays the course Not all climate and energy proposals hit the skids with Tuesday's results.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2010
• While the Jets are a defeat away from their first 0-9 start in franchise history, the post-Tom Brady era for the Patriots has hit the skids.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 9 Nov. 2020
• The Russian rouble hit the skids after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2023
• There were myriad in-game illustrations of just how swiftly Oregon’s undefeated season hit the skids in Pasadena.
  — Christopher Kamrani, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
• Lyle Anderson had developed the site with Jack Nicklaus but fell on hard times, and had to let the club with two 18-hole layouts go as the economy hit the skids.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• Crypto hit the skids in May when Musk said the electric car company would stop accepting bitcoin as payment until it is produced using more sustainable sources of energy.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2021
• But several of those projects have recently hit the skids after executives miscalculated the impact that the pandemic and rising interest rates would have on supply chains.
  — Brad Plumer, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
• As negotiations for their first contract have hit the skids, postproduction workers at Saturday Night Live are preparing for a strike.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Mar. 2023
• As the Delta variant rampages across the country and after an Afghanistan pullout in which Biden appeared at times less than candid and willing to pass the buck, the President's popularity has begun to hit the skids.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 6 Sep. 2021