Sentence examples for avoided hitting from inspiring English sources

As he was going down, Mr. Rehill apparently avoided hitting several homes.

Although she is friendly with Hingis, she thought the Swiss could have avoided hitting her.

Using a similar methodology, Switzerland's UBS would have needed a pre-crisis ratio of about 12% to have avoided hitting the floor of 4%.

The reports said that Mr. Ng's arms and legs were badly hurt but that the attackers had avoided hitting him on the head.

In the course of multiple trips to the site, the surly taxi-driver gradually opened up, especially after I complimented him on the skill with which he avoided hitting pedestrians at the last possible second.

They had been relentlessly pursuing a propaganda line that the Russian air strikes in Syria have avoided hitting Isis and are almost entirely directed against "moderate" or "Western-backed" Syrian opposition forces seeking to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.

■ Never swerve to avoid hitting a deer.

"We avoid hitting Syrian interests in Lebanon.

A large S.U.V. braked abruptly to avoid hitting it.

Eric Schilling attempts to avoid hitting the colored part of the screen while floating in zero gravity.

The police say Mourning was unable to avoid hitting one of the cars.