hard-hit

But New Zealand and Australia were particularly hard hit by the war.

He had anticipated that a hard hit to the head with this lead object would be enough to knock a woman out.

Along the East Coast, towns hard hit by Superstorm Sandy are kicking off summer.

Kaufman rode her Vespa to hard-hit parts of New Jersey to help clean houses and deliver food, but she was still restless.

He said he felt confident about even hard-hit areas such as Staten Island, which he described as being “in pretty good shape.”

“Well, I have never seen any man so hard hit,” she admitted.

The shoulder shot had been the fatal one, but he had been hard hit in the side too.

If they got nothing worth while, it was the fortune of war, which a digger never growls at, no matter how hard hit he may be.

We knew then something was wrong, and that the old man was hard hit, or he'd never have let her go loose like that.

"You got a pretty hard hit this morning, then," muttered Jim, glancing sideways in his companion's face.