How to Use hit-and-miss in a Sentence

hit-and-miss

adjective
  • But overall, styling is hit-and-miss on this one in my humble opinion.
    — New Atlas, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The storms are expected to be hit-and-miss, so not everyone will see rain.
    — Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025
  • And to say its fusillade of jokes is hit-and-miss would also be a charitable take.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Booking an Airbnb used to be a rather hit-and-miss experience.
    — Charley Ward, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 May 2025
  • This service should be regular and ongoing, not hit-and-miss.
    — Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
  • The hit-and-miss nature has been highlighted by those with early access to the hardware.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Perhaps not coincidentally, Crowe has been on a long-running, hit-and-miss self-improvement program for at least two decades.
    — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The onsite restaurant went through a several hit-and-miss iterations before the current occupant, La Pentola, took over.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • They have been hit-and-miss with their high-quality opportunities, though, with their big-chance conversion rate of 33 per cent matching Manchester United’s.
    — Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Drew Allar, Penn State Allar has prototypical size, tantalizing arm strength and… well, hit-and-miss production.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 8 Apr. 2026
  • So much of the immediate pleasure of the show came from how unforced and unstudied the young ensemble was in the beginning, but what felt like brilliant casting in the beginning became increasingly more hit-and-miss as the show progressed.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Alabama transfer Isaiah Bond was more hit-and-miss, and Oregon State’s Silas Bolden had little impact other than letting punts bounce for extra yards time after time.
    — Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The hit-and-miss driverless experience comes despite Musk responding in September to a Robotaxi user’s social media lament about having a supervisor in the driver’s seat.
    — Andrea Guzmán, Austin American Statesman, 21 Jan. 2026

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