How to Use kick it in a Sentence

kick it

verb
  • Your cat can then bat and kick it around.
    — Caroline Lubinsky, Martha Stewart, 18 May 2026
  • The judge got a little spooked and kicked it down to a lower court.
    — Chris Murphy, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Jennifer Lopez likes to kick it back on the weekend, too.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 26 May 2026
  • Staab attempted to kick the ball away, but kicked it right off Bethune’s foot.
    — Scott Chasen, Kansas City Star, 10 May 2026
  • And then for soccer, dribbling is, like, just kicking it with your feet and keeping it close.
    — Daniel Wilkerson, CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • After all, this game only requires a ball, a functioning foot and a place to kick it.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 10 June 2026
  • No, as usual, that came from me and Antony brainstorming and kicking it around.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • Mbokazi beat Jonathan David to the ball to kick it out of bounds, preventing a shot at an open net.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 28 June 2026
  • The group of strangers attempted to smash the windshield and the sunroof, punching and kicking it.
    — Aaron Parseghian, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • The group attempted to smash the windshield and the sunroof, punching and kicking it.
    — Matt Schooley, CBS News, 18 May 2026
  • Dach skated down the left side, went around a defender, lost the puck, kicked it from his skate to his stick in front of the net and put it in.
    — ABC News, 29 Apr. 2026
  • And a high-energy touring band familiar to many Boise music fans will help kick it off.
    — Michael Deeds updated May 8, Idaho Statesman, 8 May 2026
  • This time around, BC High decided to kick it into high gear early.
    — Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
  • But having a Chanel ambassadorship can certainly kick it up a notch.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 3 July 2026
  • One of its eyes was disabled, and its wiring was exposed; an employee was kicking it repeatedly.
    — Stephen Witt, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
  • Among all these elaborate and painstakingly studied novelties, loaves of barbari, the bread that kicked it off, await almost humbly.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026
  • This rule prohibited goalkeepers from receiving the ball with their hands if a teammate deliberately kicked it to them.
    — Cesar R. Torres, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
  • The Season 1 big finale cliffhanger involved their relationship too, kicking it to the next level.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 28 May 2026
  • After the 2028 Olympics, the tax would drop from 16% to 15%, at least until the next ballot measure kicks it up again.
    — Susan Shelley, Daily News, 13 May 2026
  • Something switched in that one 10 years ago — the Warriors wore out and James (and Kyrie Irving) kicked it into hyperdrive.
    — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 12 June 2026
  • Trainor announced the Get in Girl tour in November and was set to kick it off June 12 in Clarkston, Mich.
    — Katie Simons, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Kiyomasa is a 13-year-old gorilla kicking it in a Japanese zoo, and he was recently caught on video getting chased by one of the female gorillas in the troop.
    — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2026
  • Quincy Jones was kicking it with Steve McQueen and Jay Sebring the day of the Manson murders.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026
  • This week, Al kicks it with Jersey producer Subjxct 5 to talk about the cross-generational influences on his versatile East Coast beats.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 16 June 2026
  • Joe Buck kicked it over to Bob Tayek for the honor of a lifetime, to introduce two World Series teams on national TV in October 2016.
    — Zack Meisel, New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • All three were present during one of the most aesthetically pleasing possessions of this postseason, an extremely Nova-esque sequence with multiple paint touches, everyone playing off two feet and continuing to draw two to the ball and then kicking it out until a great shot emerged.
    — Cj Moore, New York Times, 13 June 2026
  • Over the past five games she’s kicked it up another notch, with Kelsey Plum, Wilson and Caitlin Clark the only players in the WNBA averaging more than her 22 points per game.
    — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 May 2026
  • Among them were Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins and Goo Goo Dolls’ Johnny Rzeznik kicking it up for Kiss, and Brandi Carlile honored Morissette in song and speech.
    — Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • The men kicked it off with the Aces’ Troy Field and Ryan Wilcox taking on Dallas’ 2012 Olympian Paul Lotman and 2024 AVP Most Valuable Player Miles Partain.
    — Ava Dicecca, Sun Sentinel, 14 June 2026

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