How to Use hit back in a Sentence

hit back

phrasal verb
  • The stock is 12% from the 52-week high hit back in March.
    Jason Gewirtz, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Queen sends a pair of hits back to the Hard Rock Streaming Songs chart this week.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In the third, the same thing happened when Gammill was caught off third on a ball hit back up the middle.
    Chip Souza, arkansasonline.com, 23 Feb. 2024
  • As McDonald and Giron hit back and forth and played out points, dozens of fans stopped by to watch them.
    Jesus Jiménez Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • But now Elon Musk is threatening to hit back with a lawsuit to stop the app.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 July 2023
  • It is played with a paddle and a whiffle ball that is hit back and forth over a net on a hard surface.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The Ukrainians hit back, and 10 Russian soldiers were killed.
    Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Trump hitting back on the issue at his Philly rally last night.
    ABC News, 23 June 2024
  • In the months since the case against Presley was first filed, her attorneys hit back with their own version of events.
    Bill Donahue, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2024
  • In this case, the two decided not to hit back at VanArendonk online.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Fouts recorded the next two outs by catching a pop-up and fielding a ball hit back toward her.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 2 June 2023
  • The drug industry, in response to the announcement, hit back on the program.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
  • When these storms hit back to back, the devastation can be enormous.
    Craig E. Colten, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2024
  • At times, the 27-year-old quarterback has hit back on social media.
    Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2024
  • But, the critics hit back, none of that lends itself to an atmosphere where people will want to sit back, relax and shoot the breeze.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 3 Nov. 2023
  • But Simmons' staff hit back at the comments on social media.
    Jay Stahl, USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But Simmons’ staff hit back at the comments on social media.
    Bruce Haring, Deadline, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Fans have hit back in the comments due to their suspicions about Central Cee’s cheating.
    Charley Ross, Glamour, 17 July 2024
  • After months of bad news, Apple is finally ready to hit back.
    Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Google has preemptively hit back at the prospect of the European Union breaking it up.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Publicly, the White House has resisted hitting back at Manchin.
    Evan Halper, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Never one to be outdone, Teresa hit back at Melissa's words.
    Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 6 June 2023
  • But others on stage took the more traditional GOP view, hitting back.
    WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
  • That brought the game to 5-5 for less than 30 seconds, before American Jenna Flynn hit back.
    Sean Nevin, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Schiff hit back, prompting Porter to name drop a Sacramento Bee fact-check on claims about donations to her campaign.
    Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Republicans hit back with a salacious mailer about Gibson, all of which suggests that the race is still very much alive.
    Teo Armus, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Nonetheless, his fans have continued to cut down Baker, prompting her to hit back tweet-by-tweet.
    Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
  • Weiss hit back at those claims Monday evening in a letter to Senator Lindsey Graham.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
  • The influencer, who sleeps in his North Carolina studio to cut down on driving time to the office, hit back in February 2023.
    Beth Greenfield, Fortune, 1 July 2024
  • In April, Israel hit back at Iran with a limited strike on an air base in Isfahan that caused little damage.
    Henry Meyer and Marissa Newman / Bloomberg, TIME, 2 Oct. 2024

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