Sentence examples for but never hit from inspiring English sources

They straddled us many times but never hit us until at 11.30 one shell penetrated the boiler room.

One of the quirks on his résumé is that he had a home run in his first at-bat in the majors — in April 1952 at the Polo Grounds — but never hit another.

A prodigious composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher, whose pupils included the young Yehudi Menuhin, the Romanian Enescu (1881-1955) halwaysays had advocates but never hit the mainstream.

Treble-chasing Bayern had Schweinsteiger fit again and Spaniard Javi Martínez back on the bench for the first time since tearing knee ligaments last year but never hit top form against the battling Berliners.

Sergeant McGoey has been shot at but never hit, and has been stabbed, once while investigating a burglary when the suspect jumped out from behind a door and stabbed him in the arm.

"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting," he counseled, "but never hit soft".

Earl likes Ron's heavy-lidded good looks but never hits on him in a film about the ways convicts devise to get through oppressive days while holding on to a tiny amount of dignity.

Since that time, RSD-NO high schools have been swishing around in the 16-point-somethings, but never hitting even 16.9.

And it is here, in this space of endlessly falling but never hitting ground, where I need the most faith in my direction.

So I lifted my arm, but I never hit him.

"My father was a very, very aggressive person, but he never hit me," he said.