How to Use hit-and-run in a Sentence

hit-and-run

1 of 2 adjective

• More:Dana Williams was killed by a hit-and-run driver on Fond du Lac.
  — Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2024
• The school lost Matthew Jensen, an English teacher, to a hit-and-run two years ago.
  — John Surico, New York Times, 6 June 2023
• The shooting followed a hit-and-run earlier in the day.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 28 June 2023
• Police were not able to find any witnesses who saw the hit-and-run, Ciampa said.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 27 Feb. 2024
• Less than a month later, he was sentenced to 90 days of house arrest for his guilty plea in the hit-and-run case.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 2 June 2023
• Lugo died two hours after the clock struck midnight Jan. 1 in a south Phoenix hit-and-run crash.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 10 Mar. 2024
• She was arrested earlier in the week on DUI and hit-and-run charges.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 4 Dec. 2023
• Along with manslaughter, Payne pleaded guilty to charges of DUI and hit-and-run causing death.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Nov. 2023
• Folsom police were called about 3:45 p.m. to the area of Greenback Lane and Folsom Boulevard for a report of a hit-and-run.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
• Again, things start off bad—with a hit-and-run accident—and spiral downward.
  — WIRED, 21 June 2023
• Cummings died on the scene of a hit-and-run crash in a suburb of Richmond, Virginia, early last Monday.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2023
• Police are searching for the driver of a fatal hit-and-run in Uptown that killed a 69-year-old woman.
  — Vivian La, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
• The hit-and-run death of an Ohio restaurant matriarch in 1985 remains unsolved.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
• Vazquez Gongora, who turned 18 less than a month before the crash, is also charged with carjacking, hit-and-run and DUI.
  — City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2023
• She was struck and killed by the coworker in a hit-and-run later that night, authorities said.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 14 June 2023
• The 52-year-old had earlier entered guilty pleas to first-degree manslaughter and hit-and-run as part of a plea deal.
  — oregonlive, 13 June 2023
• The child is the second person to be killed in a hit-and-run crash in Boston this year, according to city records and Globe reporting.
  — Talia Lissauer, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• Court records show the hit-and-run and reckless homicide charges, which were filed Sunday, are related to the death of 55-year-old Janice Howard.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
• The mom of a 20-year-old college student who was killed in a hit-and-run at her college campus is fighting for justice.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
• Read Next National Beloved teacher killed in hit-and-run, Illinois cops say.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2024
• Jaylin Todd, 16, was identified by police as the victim of a hit-and-run crash that involved a van that fled the scene on Saturday.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 29 Feb. 2024
• Two teenagers face murder charges in the alleged intentional hit-and-run.
  — Alyssa Starr, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2023
• The preliminary finding was that the person found dead in a ditch was a pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run, police said.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Also in January, a 77-year-old man died after being struck in a hit-and-run on Spenard Road.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2023
• Also unusual for a hit-and-run, Stephen's clothing was intact and his shoes, which were loosely tied, were still on.
  — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
• Police said Stallings-Brown was behind two stabbings and three hit-and-run incidents.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024
• Except for the case of one woman who was killed in a hit-and-run accident, nine of the 10 homeowners are still in their Carter homes, Gibson and Johnson said.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
• The actor is also facing a misdemeanor charge of a hit-and-run and property damage.
  — USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
• This is the latest legal trouble for Rice, who turned himself in to authorities on April 11 for his involvement in a hit-and-run crash that injured at least four people, according to police records.
  — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
• Luis Perez-Garcia was charged with four felonies Thursday, including two counts of hit-and-run resulting in death and two counts of knowingly operating a vehicle without a valid license causing death.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 9 May 2024

hit-and-run

2 of 2 verb

• In the same spot on Oct. 4, Joseph Jackson, 59, was killed by a hit-and-run driver.
  — John Tuohy, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Feb. 2023
• He was killed, along with Hella’s mother, sister and nephew, in a hit-and-run in 1942.
  — Tom Nolan, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2023
• That year in April a 13-year-old bicyclist was killed in a hit-and-run collision.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• Some locals interviewed in the docuseries allege that the Murdaughs might have been involved with his hit-and-run death, per the Wall Street Journal.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 22 Feb. 2023
• Authorities initially thought Smith had been shot, but his death has later ruled a hit-and-run — a claim that his mother has disputed all along.
  — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
• West, now 23, had been convicted of fourth-degree vehicular assault after a hit-and-run crash.
  — oregonlive, 22 Feb. 2023
• Police have identified the driver in a hit-and-run crash Saturday that sent four Plymouth State University students to the hospital, officials said.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• Law enforcement agencies this week announced arrests in two fatal hit-and-run accidents in Central Arkansas.
  — Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 1 Mar. 2023
• Police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash in Waterbury last month.
  — Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
• While deaths have declined, police data shows that car crashes and hit-and-run crashes have remained consistent across both years.
  — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 8 Jan. 2026