Sentence examples for realisation hit that from inspiring English sources

Ryan Giggs has admitted he broke down in tears after Manchester United's final game of the season - and tried to hide this from Nicky Butt - as the realisation hit that he had finally retired as a footballer after 23 seasons.

Suddenly, the realisation hit that this was it.

When the realisation hit that she'd be joining in week three, Lotte made a game plan and stuck to it.

Somewhere around the improbably self-effacing satori of 'Tabloid Lover'I('m'm really no one special, but I'm at my peak') the realisation hits that this is not only a very good Razorlight album, it's actually a very good album full-stop.

There comes a moment like this in most young adolescent lives: when the burning realisation hits that you're far more fabulous than everyone else – more talented and better looking than all the nauseating kids in your class, and destined to leave the drudgery of your suburban existence behind.

When Manchester City and the New York Yankees purchased the final MLS slot in New York, two and a half months before the Cosmos were due to return to the NASL, the realisation hit home that the storied franchise would not be mentioned as a realistic addition to America's premier soccer league until at least 2020, when the MLS will revaluate its expansion priorities.

Bournemouth's fans started signing the theme tune to Match of the Day as the realisation hit home that they would be seeing their side in the top flight of English football for the first time in the club's history.

After slaying Pontiff Sulyvahn the following area looks so familiar, yet different, and as you ascend up a familiar spiral staircase the realisation hits in that, yep, you're back in the legendary city once more.

The pair admit the realisation hit home 18 months ago that many Blues fans wanted a change of ownership at the club, but the insist Birmingham have been revitalised since the dark days of the early 1990s when gates averaged less than 7,000.

"The dawn of realisation hit me the other day that we could well be in a situation that, in just over a week, this club could no longer exist after 110 years.

It wasn't until a close friend of mine was brutally gan- raped and murdered that the full realisation hit me.