hit upon
Example Sentences
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Passionate about castles since his childhood and determined to live in one, he hit upon the idea of "Kapla" while building a wooden architectural model for his first major building project in the remote Aveyron region of southern France in the 1970s.
From Barron's
“That’s kind of where I like to think about things, where they come from. That emotional component of him protecting this little grasshopper, cricket thing was everything — like when we hit upon that, it gave us permission to do it all, you know,” Tartakovsky explained, “because it’s not just like, ‘Hey, let’s do a zombie, and then we can have more death and more gore.’
From Salon
But in bringing his marital woes to the stage and getting some chuckles, Alex believes he’s hit upon something: a talking cure that comes with a fresh identity, new friends, an acceptable level of risk and a way out of unhappiness.
From Los Angeles Times
To publicize his idea, Crowe hit upon a plan that some might find a bit creepy: He designed an entire dinnerware series with the glazes, then held a dinner party using the products.
Mr Bloom and his co-founders hit upon a plan to use vast banks of these units to power a crypto-mining operation.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
