How to Use on-target in a Sentence

on-target

adjective
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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
  • Upgraded heat shield tiles and steering fins endured temperatures as high as 3,000 degrees during the descent, working as planned to protect the spacecraft and guide it to an on-target splashdown in the Indian Ocean.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 13 Oct. 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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