"hit a ball"

"The car hit a tree" "He struck the table with his elbow"

"We were hit by really bad weather" "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager" "The earthquake struck at midnight"

"He hit her hard in the face"

"The thermometer hit 100 degrees" "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour"

"We hit Detroit by noon" "The water reached the doorstep" "We barely made the plane" "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts"

"Panic struck me" "An interesting idea hit her" "A thought came to me": "The thought struck terror in our minds" "They were struck with fear"

"The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939" "We must strike the enemy's oil fields" "in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5-2"

"he came all the way around on Williams' hit"

"The pianist strikes a middle C" "strike `z' on the keyboard" "her comments struck a sour note"

"We find this idea in Plato" "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here" "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"

"I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant"

"The home team scored many times" "He hit a home run" "He hit .300 in the past season"

"hit the bottle"

"repeated hitting raised a large bruise" "after three misses she finally got a hit"

"that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career" "that new Broadway show is a real smasher" "the party went with a bang"

"WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"

"The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"

"he hit his fist on the table" "she struck her head on the low ceiling"

"He tries to hit on women in bars"

"the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction"

"it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"