hit-run
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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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Carrier strikes are, of course, only hit-run raids.
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It has been said by someone that the German 'little man' has a suppressed desire to be killed some day by a hit-run driver on a pedestrian crossing while the lights are in his favor.
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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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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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