lucky hit
Example Sentences
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Wait, was that Taylor with the lucky hit, or Turner with the lucky hit, or both?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2018
It may have been a lucky hit, but for the army and crew, once was enough.
From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2011
A lucky hit on a powder magazine won the day spectacularly for Arbenz & friends.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Once in a great while, the stick got a lucky hit, but the Goddess Kwan Yin was again merciful and sent the ball nowhere near the fence.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
