Sentence examples for barely missed hitting from inspiring English sources

The car skidded, barely missed hitting a tree, then fishtailed and flipped.

Hughes was slow to back up home, and did not see the ball as it flew over him and barely missed hitting him in the head.

So the league did not know that in 1986, Mr. Torstenson was convicted of "endangering the safety of another". Court records show that by the account of witnesses, he barely missed hitting his pregnant former wife with his pickup after a child-support hearing.

We just got back last week, and like most people post-travel, we're still processing what we experienced (like barely missing hitting a massive elk crossing the road at 4 30 am on the way to see the sunrise over the Grand Canyon's South Rim, and passing Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner hiking up a remote single-track above Beverly Hills).

The track just missed hitting the eight million mark shortly after it was released, and it barely slipped past Adele's "Hello," which also came close to that milestone back in late 2015.

On Aug. 5, he barely missed getting hit in the head by Brad Thompson of St . Louis

The accident almost cost more lives, as a ferry crossing the Ohio River just barely missed being hit by the truss.

I barely missed getting hit by a car, but got to the other side, where I stopped and looked at him.

One of the bullets that hit Adams barely missed his spine.

He barely missed another when a ball he hit was caught at the wall Friday.

The golden sea oats waft in the summer breeze, and gnarled pines, blasted by hurricanes that hit or barely missed, lean from sand so purely white that the sun flashes off it like a mirror and hurts the eyes.