How to Use on-target in a Sentence

on-target

adjective

• 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
• 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
• Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg was on-target again by voting for chart-topping vocal group Pentatonix.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 11 May 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024