Thesaurus / hit-or-miss

hit-or-miss

How to use hit-or-miss in a sentence

It probes around more or less hit-or-miss until it locates something, somewhere, that looks habitable.

CIRCUSALAN EDWARD NOURSE

We had made a wise choice, though on a hit-or-miss formula, and we were content.

THE AUTOMOBILIST ABROADM. F. (MILBURG FRANCISCO) MANSFIELD

He told his stories with a hit-or-miss air, as if accustomed to people of rapid apprehension.

THOMAS MOORESTEPHEN GWYNN

He enjoyed life and wasted no time on trivial worries, hit-or-miss, the keynote to his thought.

A competitive game which is easy to manage is hit-or-miss illustrating.

Sometimes it was in a hit-or-miss style, the rags sewed just as one happened to pick them up.

There were braided rugs that were quite marvels of taste, and even the hit-or-miss ones were not bad.

It was too hopeless, too hit-or-miss, to expect to find those watches by that kind of searching.

Things had apparently been stuffed in hit-or-miss fashion: ribbons, scarves, odd bits of costumes were all entangled together.

It is largely a hit-or-miss or grab-in-the-dark method, as it is impossible to clean up the ground in this manner.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985