How to Use on-target in a Sentence

on-target

adjective
  • The Rams rookie also needs a good snap, fast and on-target.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The Rams rookie also needs a good snap, fast and on-target.
    David Wharton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Then, later in the quarter, Maye threw an on-target pass of 40 yards while on the run, though it was dropped.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • Can rip shots or thread the needle with on-target touch passes.
    Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
  • The throw from Carpenter to Haase wasn't close, but an on-target throw to the catcher would have gotten him at the plate easily.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2023
  • With a new player like Goodson turning back to find a football, the pass needs to be perfectly on-target.
    Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Umpteen chances went begging long before Rovers managed to make their first and only on-target effort of the afternoon count.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Umpteen chances went begging long before Rovers managed to make their first and only on-target effort of the afternoon count.
    Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Metz had several chances but only two on-target attempts.
    Samuel Petrequin, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The return maneuver culminated in an on-target vertical landing a few miles south of the launch pad.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Scoreless stalemate so far (25') FC Cincinnati doesn't have much going forward and certainly doesn't have an on-target shot.
    The Enquirer, 24 May 2023
  • On a potential double-play grounder off the bat of Jackson Merrill, first baseman Freddie Freeman dove for the ball and delivered an on-target throw to second from his knees.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
  • On a potential double-play grounder off the bat of Jackson Merrill, first baseman Freddie Freeman dove for the ball and delivered an on-target throw to second from his knees.
    Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024
  • On this fifth test flight, SpaceX modified the ship's heat shield to better handle the hot temperatures of reentry, and the vehicle again made it to an on-target splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
    Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
  • On this fifth test flight, SpaceX modified the ship's heat shield to better handle the hot temperatures of reentry, and the vehicle again made it to an on-target splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
    Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Watkins sent him anyway against the powerful, accurate arm of Atlanta right fielder Jorge Soler, who made an on-target throw to easily cut down Margot for the first out.
    Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 28 Aug. 2024
  • The first stage used for the rideshare mission, making its fifth flight, flew itself back to an on-target landing at Vandenberg after boosting the upper stage and payloads out of the lower atmosphere.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence is completing only 53.3% of his passes, which explains why Jacksonville has the league’s fourth-lowest rate of on-target passes.
    Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • On its debut flight, the new rocket delivered a commercial lunar lander to an on-target orbit.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 23 July 2024
  • Moments later, the cameras captured an on-target splashdown followed by what appeared to be an explosion.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg was on-target again by voting for chart-topping vocal group Pentatonix.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 May 2023
  • Its first stage, solid rocket boosters, and upper stage performed as expected for the first phase of the flight, delivering eight small satellites into an on-target orbit.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2024
  • And part of it is paying it forward, appreciating how on-time, on-target passes have benefited him over these six seasons, with a goal of easing the scoring of teammates.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Upgraded heat shield tiles and steering fins endured temperatures as high as 3,000 degrees during the descent, working as planned to protect the spacecraft and guide it to an on-target splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
    William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2024
  • Without having a visual clue of what the user is discussing, the generative AI might have a limited ability to provide on-target responses.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Without having a visual clue of what the user is discussing, the generative AI might have a limited ability to provide on-target responses.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Positioning your home to sell through on-target pricing and strategic marketing has never been more important in the Dallas-Fort Worth real estate market.
    Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The Lions earned their third consecutive clean sheet across all competitions following Tuesday’s result, increasing their shots-on-target tally to three after hitting the mark just twice in their last two games.
    Mike Gramajo, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
  • They were gashed through the air by an opposing quarterback for whom on-target passes are a career rarity.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Djokovic’s shots were not quite on-target early and, but for a brief interlude in the second set, his usual verve was not present.
    Howard Fendrich, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025

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