Sentence examples for hitting on something from inspiring English sources

"Making art is born of necessity and it's an ongoing process — responding to the world and continuously moving forward, occasionally hitting on something then plodding ahead," she wrote in an e-mail.

Their debut feels entirely a product of its era, but now they seemed to be hitting on something more eternal: "I'm not waiting 'til I grow up," ran one chorus, a perfect summation of the impulse behind all punk rock.

We were obviously hitting on something here.

You're hitting on something so powerful.

Most of this stuff was just blundering through, and hitting on something that just seemed right.

CI: Yeah, I think you're kind of hitting on something there.

You actually hit on something there.

But maybe the Suffolk officials hit on something worth imitating in New York.

I thought I'd hit on something".

But at Balenciaga, he hit on something.

Mr. Anderson had hit on something.