How to Use hit/strike home in a Sentence

hit/strike home

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  • Two of the players using the bats hit home runs during the game.
    — Mansee Khurana, NPR, 30 Mar. 2025
  • That the closest fire hit home to us right in our backyard.
    — Dj Siddiqi, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
  • The way that Scott, Foy and Bell play these sequences hit home, in every sense of the phrase.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2023
  • When did the need for a lunar doomsday vault hit home for you?
    — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 31 July 2024
  • What the 49ers need to do: Defense has to hit home with that high-dollar front four.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2024
  • For Reyes, the reaction to the post was a sign that her message had hit home.
    — Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Mar. 2025
  • This hit home last Christmas when my son asked for rollerblades.
    — Curt Steinhorst, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • No pair of reigning league MVPs had ever hit home runs in the first inning of the same game.
    — Doug Padilla, Oc Register, 31 May 2025
  • The game started with fireworks, as both Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani hit home runs in the first inning to make it 1-1.
    — Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 31 May 2025
  • The film shows the importance of camaraderie, which could hit home with tween and teen boys.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 14 Feb. 2025
  • But no story has hit home for Barber-Just, 49, like this one.
    — Brooke Hauser, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2023
  • The Mariners did not do a whole lot offensively for most of the game except hit home runs.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 May 2025
  • Or Gavin Sheets’ tying, full-count, pinch hit home run to dead center.
    — Dennis Lin, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • That’s a lesson the Decatur 101 program in Georgia tries to hit home.
    — Sara Lang, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 June 2023
  • Andy Pages hit home runs in the fourth (a solo shot) and fifth (a three-run blast) to keep the Dodgers within striking distance.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The uncertainty hit home for them last month when Jay Park lost her job.
    — Min Joo Kim, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Elly De La Cruz doesn’t hit home runs or steal bases anymore.
    — C. Trent Rosecrans, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • That put the Steelers up 23-15 after Chris Boswell hit home a field goal to take the lead back earlier in the third quarter.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Between the lines: Heyward's remarks hit home for diehards.
    — Ryan Deto, Axios, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The news hit home for this priest, not just because Prevost is an American.
    — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2025
  • This week, Murray did something that truly hit home for him.
    — José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
  • More help leaving a house to your kids Dear Liz: The question from the couple who wanted to leave a home to their four children hit home with me.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 June 2024
  • The Other Sister was a film that really hit home for Meagan Good.
    — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 22 Feb. 2023
  • For countries collectively born from the rubble of the former Soviet Union, the war in Ukraine has hit home in more ways than one.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • For one of the rescuers, identified only as Yasemin, Adnan’s survival hit home hard.
    — Justin Spike, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
  • This hit home, against your team, in your backyard, eerily close to where Tua Tagovailoa had been knocked out earlier in the season. Enough.
    — The Enquirer, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Less than five months later, the coronavirus pandemic hit home, causing schools to shut down.
    — David Tarrant, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2020
  • At a recent game, the opposing team walked Bell intentionally and the next two batters hit home runs.
    — Mitch Stephens, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Through the foundation, Tokischa plans to support different causes that hit home.
    — Zameena Mejia, refinery29.com, 24 Sep. 2024
  • The intensity of the battle has hit home for Sister Monica Clare.
    — Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024

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