hit-run
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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For 20 years, a resolute Tennessean named Welby Lee has searched for the hit-run driver who hurtled out of the gloom on a rural road and killed his father on New Year's Eve, 1944.
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Carrier strikes are, of course, only hit-run raids.
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He was killed by a hit-run driver while pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings down a country road.
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He sent Halsey out on the hit-run raids which buoyed the fleet's morale, and the nation's, early in 1942.
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Unlike federal agents, they confront hit-run crimes that leave little time for investigation to nail down probable cause.
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