Sentence examples for while he hit on from inspiring English sources

After quite a while he hit on the idea of telling them to call Intourist.

But every once in a while, he hits on a topic important enough that he ends up talking to someone important.

After opening a crêperie in a Quebec ski resort while studying abroad, he hit on the idea for a combination restaurant/bakery/fast-food eatery.

Then, one day, while out shooting pheasant, he hit on the answer, and rushed home.

Born in Syracuse in 1951, Lombardi worked as a reference librarian and ran a gallery in Houston while painting abstractions before he hit on his mature style relatively late in the game.

While he hit with James Ward on the Aorangi practice courts on Tuesday morning, it was left to his new coach, Amélie Mauresmo, to fill in the blanks about his state of mind and body.

Instead, while his completion percentage was good (he hit on 32 of 44 passes), Cassel put on a show that was really more of a study in regression.

After a while, he "was hit right on the forehead and in the heart by a couple of serious love affairs - not important sexually, but for the involvement that they brought".

Netscape took a while to hit on a good strategy.

He was hit on the left temple while shagging balls in the outfield Monday.

But while Cirio hit on an obvious controversy by drawing attention to what he called an "invasive" Google Street View, Smith's work is quieter, more complicated -- and perhaps ultimately more thought-provoking.