Example Sentences

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Until that point, he had been hitting his groundstrokes with his usual ferocity.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Emhoff had been hitting all the stops around the city to campaign for his wife.

From Salon • Sep. 10, 2024

The $210 million-dollar man who had been hitting just 40 points better than .210.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2024

In May, during a brief respite from the Russian rockets that had been hitting Kharkiv, Ukraine, Stanislav Drokin walked out of his jewelry atelier in his hometown’s city center to collect bomb fragments.

From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022

Bunny, I knew, had been hitting him hard for money in the past weeks, but though Henry complained about this he seemed oddly incapable of refusing him.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt