Sentences with phrase «to hit something»

Another grateful occupant Mia, 20, expressed how lucky she is to be part of the program: «I feel like I just rolled some dice and hit something lucky because I don't think I would have found a place that genuinely takes care of kids like they do here.»

Tesla's Autopilot system uses cameras, radar and computers to detect objects and automatically brake if the car is about to hit something.

Jeffries says: «You're never going to see them until they hit something.

But when it hits something, it reacts much differently.

Just like the other two, the Model 3 is said to feature an autopilot system as well, but the Model X has something unique out of the bunch: Falcon - wing doors that can detect when it's about to hit something.

«If they're hitting something they want 50 milligrams.

«When we took [highly political former Rage Against the Machine guitarist] Tom Morello through and he gave it a thumbs - up, we knew we hit something.

Point is, if Obama is allowed to do this unopposed today, there's a great possibility that he'll continue to do so, sooner or later hitting something close to home for you.

When light hits something, it allows you to see that thing.

It is as if the meanings hit something between the communicators that caused them to bounce back.

Now, last week we hit something of a snafu when, in commenting on Wright's kingdom - focused view of sovereignty, I wrote that «N.T. Wright is not a Calvinist.»

The newscasters keep comparing the astronauts with Columbus, «but as far as Rabbit can see it's the exact opposite: Columbus flew blind and hit something, these guys see exactly where they're aiming and it's a big round nothing» (p. 28).

Body shop guy says we got lucky it hit something otherwise the hinges pull away from the frame bending it and that is a much costlier fix.

He turned around and saw the officer shaking his hand like he just hit something.

Forget the touchdown dances, Hall of Fame middle linebacker Mike Singletary made hitting something to smile about to a generation of NFL fans who came of age in the 1980s.

A shot more towards the goal that on a good day gets slightly deflected to wrong foot the goalkeeper, instead hits something closer to dead on and is blocked.

When they hit something accidentally and it produces the desired effect, they are likely to repeat the procedure.

Donielle — you may have hit something — for us atleast... we use all F&C... of course we always have..

A wooden stirring spoon ~ Never let your baby walk around with spoons in her mouth, she could hit something on the other end and scrape up the back of her mouth.

Are you finding it difficult to walk into your own kitchen without hitting something on your way to the fridge?

Because while the statistics come from drivers who are more likely to hit something in front of them, I know from long experience that I am personally much more likely to be hit from behind (never had so much as a speeding or parking ticket in spite of learning to drive in Alaska in January, and then driving for 4 winters in Maine with bad summer tires, but I've been in two nasty accidents, both times rear - ended).

Shaken Baby Syndrome occurs when a baby or young child is shaken violently and sometimes repetitively (over and over), with or without the head hitting something.

I hope he's not as unsettled next time you see him, but the only real way to deal with it is to protect yourself physically and let him know that it's not acceptable to hurt another person, but that he can hit -LCB- a pillow, the couch, his bed -RCB- if he feels like he needs to hit something.

If you need to hit something, you can hit this pillow.»

But now they are beginning to learn the basics of cause and effect — when they hit something it moves.

Mantiq: you hit something right on the head when you talk about how affirming the policy is - or was.

However, it would seem that relationships with her senior activists have hit something of a low, since news reaches me that an extraordinary general meeting of the association has been called for Wednesday 2nd September to consider the following motion:

Even then Labour would be the clear favourites, I think, but if a big head of local support built up we could hit something approaching four way marginal territory between Lab / INDLab / UKIP / LD.

If you land on snow (like Chisov) or hit something that gives way, such as a skylight (as happened to U.S. Air Force Sergeant Alan Magee, who survived a 20,000 - foot drop into a French train station in 1943), you will suffer less damage.

«Drops probably create a very large force when they hit something the mass of a bee,» says Hu, who plans to explore how such insects ride out the rain.

It keeps cracks from spreading through the club when the animal hits something hard.

But once it hits something, like the ground, buildings, plants or water, much of that light becomes converted to heat.

What really happened is that in the spring, I had hit something resembling rock bottom with my depression.

Like, we would topically hit something «cause you want a faster results.

So the tumor must be hitting something in that area.

There is no confidence in this outing, only random shooting in the hopes that they will hit something.

The screenplay's by Charlie Kaufman, and this, while not as good as his other top 10 film this year, is certainly his most fun movie, the one that least made me want to hit something, or someone (usually Charlie Kaufman).

The flood this time around goes back to Long and some shady development deals, and one has to wonder why God cares so much about the material possessions of a bunch of well - to - do people in a gated community when there's so much of more vitally important things going on in — well, throw a dart at a map and you'll hit something.

• The terrible uncertainty of what lies on the road behind her, as The Headless Woman drives on after having hit something...

But Andrew Haigh's film hits something harder, and taps into the idea of being young, down - and - out and desperately seeking purpose in a place that seems hellbent on destroying you.

You reach for the knitting needles, praying that they'll hit something vital in your skull before you've experienced any pain.

But in 2015, it was hard to go more than a few steps without hitting something major, something essential.

At first they were a relief — no flailing at thin air waiting for a combo to end long after my opponent had bit the dust (in Dynasty Warriors every second not spent hitting something feels like an eternity).

Perhaps a bit of trimming may have been in order, as a story this devoid of substance doesn't require a nearly two - hour run time, especially when there are at least two unnecessary and largely unfunny subplots (anything having to do with the skip tracer and the hitmen brings the comic momentum to a screeching halt) that continue to rear their ugly heads just when the comedy begins to hit something close to a stride.

Jessie and Gerald are in a seemingly happy marriage, the surface of it hiding the secret underneath that their sexual relationship has hit something of a lull.

No jarring, no feel of you just hit something.

It ran for a few minutes, then stopped as if the blade had hit something hard, but without the sound of the blade hitting something.

And when they're the difference between hitting something and avoiding it, the right tires save sheetmetal, money, and, potentially, lives.

The thud of tire impacts suggests the car has hit something big when it's just road tar.

Its safest to hit something with the front of your car.