Hit with a missile from a weapon

Usage examples of hitting.

Canisters of napalm hitting the treetops, and jellied gasoline trickling down like stalactites, and see fifteen or twenty North Vietnamese soldiers jump up from underneath it and try to escape.

Some days, like thirteen hundred rounds impacting on the area, twelve hundred rounds, a thousand rounds hitting different areas of the base.

The mortars were coming in from the back, and they were hitting the compound.

It was loud and I could hear the shrapnel hitting the grass and trees around me.

Ennet House in Enfield and be hard-pressed to spit in any direction without hitting some AA venue nearby.

The next time he came to the plate he was still so furious with himself that he insisted on hitting with the crooked bat.

Who tried hitting from the wrong side of the plate for the first time in his life in Double-A ball?

To reduce his strikeouts, he shortened his swing, and traded the possibility of hitting a home run for a greater likelihood of simply putting the ball in play.

Once he decided that hitting was the most important tool and everything else was secondary, Alderson set about implementing throughout the organization, with Marine Corps rigor, a uniform approach to hitting.

To anyone with the natural gifts to become a professional baseball player, hitting was less a physical than a mental skill.

Or, at any rate, the aspects of hitting that could be taught were mental.

To calculate what Mike Schmidt would hit if he hit only against the Chicago Cubs, you needed to understand how hitting in Wrigley Field differed from hitting in other parks.

The odds depend on who is pitching and who is hitting, of course, but they also depend on the minute events within the event.

The top half is hitting with discipline, and avoiding swinging at bad pitches.

Jeff Cirillo hits a single and, with only the tiniest prompting, starts to bitch and moan about hitting ninth in the Seattle lineup.