| Claire hurled the pillow at her, but Mindy ducked back inside the house before her target hit home. |
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| The article really hit home for me and spoke to the root of my restlessness and discontentment in life. |
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| His strike hit home, knocking a few of the armoured scales loose and inflicting a minor wound. |
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| I see too many publishers come in and expect to hit home runs the first time out of the box. |
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| He is too sweet, too nice, too inoffensive for the dig at hypocrisy to hit home, and many of the jokes lack the audacious punch of old. |
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| The problem hit home to me early last year as my wife, my mother-in-law and I caught a taxi home from a party in a Bristol city-centre hotel. |
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| Before long cupid's arrow hit home with me too and I was having a snog with Glenn. |
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| Now we've finally been appointed it might hit home to one or two that they need to pull their socks up! |
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| The shells ricochet off for a while, then hit home as the Kratch ship loses a wing and spins out of control. |
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| Last season, he focused too much on trying to hit home runs by pulling the ball, and his swing got messed up in the process. |
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| A tirade of four letter words and curses spilled from her mouth as what Griffin had just told her hit home. |
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| Harding's smile did not falter but from the concerned glance his companion shot him I could tell that my remarks had hit home. |
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| Rena's words had hit home, and she's still fuming over the other woman's ignorant comments. |
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| This last remark had a somewhat sobering effect on her as its full implications hit home. |
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| Much the same has applied to Scotland since, in the 1990s, the highly-damaging effect of the industrial trouble in schools in the 1980s hit home. |
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| This sort of situation will hit home with anybody, because America is becoming the same no matter where you go. |
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| You miss married life, and now that you've hit the one-month mark, the reality of your divorce has really begun to hit home. |
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| The cool night air was clearing his head and the enormity of his problem was beginning to hit home. |
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| But Christmas is also a time for reflection, and it is then that the truth begins to hit home. |
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| Yet such figures rarely hit home with those most at risk: the fishers themselves. |
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| Parents might throw caution to the wind where their own skin is concerned, but warnings that play on the vulnerability of children are more likely to hit home. |
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| While the meagre group of forwards in the squad has been remarked upon from the start, the consequences hit home all the harder in the tournament. |
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| With his size he does not have to muscle up to hit home runs. |
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| Now the adrenaline rush is over after the high-speed chase, the reality of what might have unfolded were the car thief armed is beginning to hit home. |
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| That let the Serbs get a fix on this F-117A to release a salvo of missiles, one of which hit home. |
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| In short, the demographic time bomb facing the UK has finally hit home. |
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| I had learned the basics before arriving to Vimy Ridge but I think it was mid-February when it hit home. |
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| It hit home for me what these men and women were willing to give up because they believed so strongly in this mission. |
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| The real criticism you might make, which would hit home, is that we are passive in this type of situation. |
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| She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1997, but the true implications only hit home a year later, when she began treatment with Betaseron. |
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| The final stage is critical for institutionalizing learning, when the value of AGC can finally hit home. |
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| Here are some numbers that might make the importance of retirement planning hit home. |
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| Supported by direct-mail campaigns that hit home with the public, these policies became the backbone of our success. |
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| This has really hit home with our Council, and we've been mandated now to put in a whole land use policy using the GIS on the reserve. |
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| Then the cold hard brutal horror had begun to hit home with him. |
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| The old parks had short fences, so it was easy to hit home runs. |
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| He hit home runs in every park in the American League and hit more on the road than at home. |
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| Okay, so he was drunk and exaggerating, but his words hit home. |
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| It promises to find out which memories hit home and which fell by the wayside and to sort the champions from the also-rans with a final round of quick fire general knowledge. |
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| But this town is full of people like me, all trying to land a deal or come up with the next big idea, and the enormity of what I'm trying to do seems to have finally hit home. |
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| The gloom-and-doom deforestation message has definitely hit home and left little space for nuanced narratives or discussions on forest economies and sustainable forest management. |
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| That may be why the problem of illiteracy hit home so hard. |
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| When the news finally hit home shores, the Island nation was devastated. |
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| The major message that hit home for us is that when a person returns to work from a health issue, such as a heart attack or stroke, they are greeted with best wishes and concern about their health. |
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| As members can see, the forestry crisis has hit home personally for me. |
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| After decades of deception and misinformation from the tobacco industry, the message about the true cost of smoking will finally start to hit home. |
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| Some of his stuff may verge on the laddish and un-PC, but there's something fundamentally nerdy and awkward about Darby that means the harsh edges never quite hit home. |
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| Minnich said the problem has hit home in West Boylston, citing two cases involving teenagers stealing drugs from a medicine cabinet. |
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| A few months later, the idea hit home when one of the RCMP's members, Cpl Yvon Brault, stumbled upon a popular website for teens where someone had posted scantily-clad snapshots and personal information. |
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| This is our background. From here on, our question is: How can we build something that will hit home, something that will attract all of these people and that will allow us to work together? |
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| There was, however, a statement in its directive that hit home with me. |
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| Many of us in the NFL search for ways to allow the popularity of our sport to have a wider and even more significant impact on our world, and 'GIs of the Gridiron' hit home. |
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