Sentences with strike
strike
S s - He was struck with polio when he was six
- To strike a bargain
- The form struck is the past tense and past participle. The form stricken can also be used as the past participle for meanings [sense 6], , [sense 17], and , [sense 19].
- Oxford were striking 38
- The workers are on strike again
- Air strike
- To strike a nail with a hammer
- To strike a gun from someone's hand
- To strike coins in a mint
- Struck in the head by a bullet
- To strike one's head on a beam
- To strike cymbals together
- To strike a match
- The stone struck a head
- Light striking the wall
- The bus struck the main road
- To strike oil
- The sight that struck my eyes
- An idea struck me
- An idea that strikes me as silly
- To be struck dumb
- To be struck with amazement
- To strike terror to the heart
- To strike a balance
- To strike in vain at a ball
- To strike on the right combination
- An air strike
- A hunger strike, a buyers' strike
- Oil hunters can never be sure of a strike until their bits cut into an oil formation.First, prospectors drill and make a strike, and then an estimate is made of the discovered amount of oil.A strike is the discovery of a source of oil or gas.
- Wildcatting is going out into an unproven area in the hope of being the first to strike oil.Two wells drilled in a promising area had struck oil, and the producers, pleased at their success, had drilled a third well.To strike oil or gas is to find a source of it.
- French air traffic controllers have begun a three-day strike in a dispute over pay.
- ...their recognition of the workers' right to strike. [VERB]
- She took two quick steps forward and struck him across the mouth. [VERB noun preposition/adverb]
- His head struck the bottom when he dived into the 6ft end of the pool. [VERB noun]
- Wilde fell and struck his head on the stone floor. [V n + on/against]
- Bank of England officials continued to insist that the pound would soon return to stability but disaster struck. [VERB]
- The attacker struck as she was walking near a housing estate at Monacurra. [VERB]
- ...a punitive air strike.
- ...a rejection of her core beliefs and values, which strikes at the very heart of her being. [VERB + at]
- A thought struck her. Was she jealous of her mother, then? [VERB noun]
- He struck me as a very serious but friendly person. [VERB noun + as]
- She was struck by his simple, spellbinding eloquence. [be V-ed + by/with]
- They struck a deal with their paper supplier, getting two years of newsprint on credit. [VERB noun + with]
- At times like that you have to strike a balance between sleep and homework. [VERB noun]
- She struck a pose, one hand on her hip and the other waving an imaginary cigarette. [VERB noun]
- If there is a single subject guaranteed to strike fear in the hearts of parents, it is drugs. [V n + in/into]
- I was struck dumb by this and had to think it over for a moment. [be VERB-ed]
- The clock struck nine. [VERB noun]
- Strike that from the minutes. [VERB noun + from]
- The censor struck out the next two lines. [VERB PREPOSITION noun]
- Robina struck a match and held it to the crumpled newspaper in the grate. [VERB noun]
- Hamilton Oil announced that it had struck oil in the Liverpool Bay area of the Irish Sea. [VERB noun]
- Another medal was specially struck for him. [be VERB-ed]
- Her appearance struck him as strange
- She was stricken with grief
- It struck me that he had become very quiet
- I was struck dumb
- The glint of metal struck his eye
- To strike the path for home
- To strike for the coast
- His age and his lack of education are two strikes against him in his search for a job.
- The army struck camp and moved on.
- They reached a price satisfactory to both of them, and struck hands on it.
- The second arrow struck home.
- She struck it rich in real estate.
- To strike the hands together.
- Brutus struck a dagger into the dying Caesar.
- Lightning struck the spire. May God strike you dead!
- The ship struck a rock.
- A shrill peal of bells struck their ears.
- A happy thought struck him.
- The first object that strikes one's eye.
- A picture that strikes one's fancy.
- How does it strike you?
- To strike the name of a friend in a newspaper.
- To strike a balance; to strike a compromise.
- To strike a set.
- To strike a passage out of a book.
- To strike a medal in commemoration.
- Illness struck him off from social contacts. The butcher struck off a chop.
- To strike 12.
- The plague struck Europe. Apoplexy struck him down.
- To strike fear into a person.
- The horse struck a gallop.
- He likes to strike a noble pose.
- We struck Rome before dark.
- Our troops struck at dawn.
- To strike on a new way of doing a thing.
- The clock strikes.
- The hour has struck.
- They struck out at dawn. They struck toward a new town.
- He is striking for yeoman.