How to Use hit/strike home in a Sentence

hit/strike home

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• Both players hit home runs in the first game of the series.
  — Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
• Two of the players using the bats hit home runs during the game.
  — Mansee Khurana, NPR, 30 Mar. 2025
• That the closest fire hit home to us right in our backyard.
  — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
• The way that Scott, Foy and Bell play these sequences hit home, in every sense of the phrase.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
• When did the need for a lunar doomsday vault hit home for you?
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
• What the 49ers need to do: Defense has to hit home with that high-dollar front four.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• For Reyes, the reaction to the post was a sign that her message had hit home.
  — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
• This hit home last Christmas when my son asked for rollerblades.
  — Curt Steinhorst, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• No pair of reigning league MVPs had ever hit home runs in the first inning of the same game.
  — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 31 May 2025
• The game started with fireworks, as both Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani hit home runs in the first inning to make it 1-1.
  — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2025
• The film shows the importance of camaraderie, which could hit home with tween and teen boys.
  — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 14 Feb. 2025
• But no story has hit home for Barber-Just, 49, like this one.
  — Brooke Hauser, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
• The Mariners did not do a whole lot offensively for most of the game except hit home runs.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2025
• Or Gavin Sheets’ tying, full-count, pinch hit home run to dead center.
  — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• That’s a lesson the Decatur 101 program in Georgia tries to hit home.
  — Sara Lang, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
• Andy Pages hit home runs in the fourth (a solo shot) and fifth (a three-run blast) to keep the Dodgers within striking distance.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
• The uncertainty hit home for them last month when Jay Park lost her job.
  — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• Elly De La Cruz doesn’t hit home runs or steal bases anymore.
  — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 16 May 2025
• That put the Steelers up 23-15 after Chris Boswell hit home a field goal to take the lead back earlier in the third quarter.
  — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2024
• Between the lines: Heyward's remarks hit home for diehards.
  — Ryan Deto, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
• The news hit home for this priest, not just because Prevost is an American.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
• This week, Murray did something that truly hit home for him.
  — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
• More help leaving a house to your kids Dear Liz: The question from the couple who wanted to leave a home to their four children hit home with me.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
• For some local politicians, the legislation would hit home — in a very big way.
  — David Weigel, semafor.com, 1 July 2025
• The Other Sister was a film that really hit home for Meagan Good.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
• For countries collectively born from the rubble of the former Soviet Union, the war in Ukraine has hit home in more ways than one.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
• The tragedy hit home for country crooner Robert Earl Keen, who has vowed to donate 100% of his tour merchandise sales to flood relief efforts.
  — Mars Salazar, Austin American Statesman, 9 July 2025
• For one of the rescuers, identified only as Yasemin, Adnan’s survival hit home hard.
  — Justin Spike, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• This hit home, against your team, in your backyard, eerily close to where Tua Tagovailoa had been knocked out earlier in the season. Enough.
  — The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2023
• Less than five months later, the coronavirus pandemic hit home, causing schools to shut down.
  — David Tarrant, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2020