hit the mark

Example Sentences

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That’s all well and good, even if Gunn’s attempts at sincerity doesn’t always hit the mark.

From Los Angeles Times

If Italy’s tourism ministry hoped to make waves with a new marketing campaign promoting the country’s many wonders, it certainly hit the mark, though not, perhaps, in the way the government had imagined.

From New York Times

Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic told Reuters in an interview, also on Friday, the Fed could "hit the mark and hold" with one more rate hike.

From Reuters

But "I think the point of 'hit the mark and hold' is 'hit the mark and hold,' unless you see a trend that is unmistakable, that is going in a way that makes you uncomfortable," he said, referring to Fed plans to reach a tight enough level of interest rates and leave them unchanged for a potentially extended period of time while inflation declines.

From Reuters

Although he was a champion of the countertenor and urged composers to write for it, not all of them hit the mark, he told The Independent of Britain in 1990.

From New York Times