How to Use on-target in a Sentence
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Can rip shots or thread the needle with on-target touch passes.
— Kyle Woodlief, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023 -
The throw from Carpenter to Haase wasn't close, but an on-target throw to the catcher would have gotten him at the plate easily.
— Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2023 -
With a new player like Goodson turning back to find a football, the pass needs to be perfectly on-target.
— Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2024 -
Metz had several chances but only two on-target attempts.
— Samuel Petrequin, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2024 -
The return maneuver culminated in an on-target vertical landing a few miles south of the launch pad.
— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 26 Aug. 2023 -
Scoreless stalemate so far (25') FC Cincinnati doesn't have much going forward and certainly doesn't have an on-target shot.
— The Enquirer, 24 May 2023 -
On a potential double-play grounder off the bat of Jackson Merrill, first baseman Freddie Freeman dove for the ball and delivered an on-target throw to second from his knees.
— Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2024 -
The first stage used for the rideshare mission, making its fifth flight, flew itself back to an on-target landing at Vandenberg after boosting the upper stage and payloads out of the lower atmosphere.
— William Harwood, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2024 -
Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence is completing only 53.3% of his passes, which explains why Jacksonville has the league’s fourth-lowest rate of on-target passes.
— Rohan Nadkarni, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024 -
On its debut flight, the new rocket delivered a commercial lunar lander to an on-target orbit.
— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 23 July 2024 -
Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg was on-target again by voting for chart-topping vocal group Pentatonix.
— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 May 2023 -
Its first stage, solid rocket boosters, and upper stage performed as expected for the first phase of the flight, delivering eight small satellites into an on-target orbit.
— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2024 -
Positioning your home to sell through on-target pricing and strategic marketing has never been more important in the Dallas-Fort Worth real estate market.
— Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 1 Aug. 2023 -
The Lions earned their third consecutive clean sheet across all competitions following Tuesday’s result, increasing their shots-on-target tally to three after hitting the mark just twice in their last two games.
— Mike Gramajo, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023 -
At times Robot Kyle felt like an extremely enthusiastic and productive, but rarely on-target, personal intern.
— Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
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