direct hit
Example Sentences
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Danni Wyatt-Hodge also ran out Sinalo Jafta with a direct hit.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
England were again excellent in the field with stand-in captain Charlie Dean's direct hit from extra cover seeing off Brooke Halliday for 20.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
The sanctuary of the Lavra’s Assumption Cathedral sustained a direct hit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
But Ivan Verbytskyi, Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Culture, told us Monday that all evidence points to “a direct hit by a drone on the cathedral.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
On impact, he heard a crunching sound, somehow modest, a noise that reminded him more of a fender bender than what this was: a highspeed direct hit.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
