How to Use hit back in a Sentence
hit back
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Queen sends a pair of hits back to the Hard Rock Streaming Songs chart this week.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
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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
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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
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But now Elon Musk is threatening to hit back with a lawsuit to stop the app.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 6 July 2023
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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
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Trump hitting back on the issue at his Philly rally last night.
—ABC News, 23 June 2024
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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
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In this case, the two decided not to hit back at VanArendonk online.
—Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 1 Nov. 2023
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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
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The drug industry, in response to the announcement, hit back on the program.
—Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 29 Aug. 2023
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When these storms hit back to back, the devastation can be enormous.
—Craig E. Colten, Discover Magazine, 30 May 2024
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At times, the 27-year-old quarterback has hit back on social media.
—Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 10 Jan. 2024
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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
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Fans have hit back in the comments due to their suspicions about Central Cee’s cheating.
—Charley Ross, Glamour, 17 July 2024
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After months of bad news, Apple is finally ready to hit back.
—Rachyl Jones, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
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Google has preemptively hit back at the prospect of the European Union breaking it up.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 11 Dec. 2023
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Publicly, the White House has resisted hitting back at Manchin.
—Evan Halper, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
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Never one to be outdone, Teresa hit back at Melissa's words.
—Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 6 June 2023
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But others on stage took the more traditional GOP view, hitting back.
—WSJ, 28 Sep. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Weiss hit back at those claims Monday evening in a letter to Senator Lindsey Graham.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 July 2023
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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
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The American Chemistry Council, which represents the plastics industry, hit back at the claims made in the study in its own statement.
—Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 10 Feb. 2024
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The Biden campaign hit back at the editorial board’s critique on Friday evening.
—Brian Rokus, CNN, 28 June 2024
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Apple hit back at Spotify in a statement posted to its website.
—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 4 Mar. 2024
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Advertisement By the time the sportswriter had a chance to get up and hit back a bit at Knight, or joke about it, or attempt to loosen up the room again, Knight was gone — out the back door — and Hammel’s night was much less festive.
—Bill Dwyre, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2023
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Theory rushed at Johnson, who hit back with two of his signature moves, the spinebuster and the People’s Elbow.
—Vulture, 16 Sep. 2023
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Moore tried to intervene, hitting McAbee with his baton, and McAbee hit back repeatedly.
—Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
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