STRIKE in a Sentence
Learn STRIKE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
368 example sentences for STRIKE, such as:
1. They were ordered to strike back.
2. The workers' ultimate weapon was the strike.
3. The low wage had warmed the worker to strike.
4. The law would strike at the most basic of civil rights.
5. Please strike out whichever option does not apply to you.
2. The workers' ultimate weapon was the strike.
3. The low wage had warmed the worker to strike.
4. The law would strike at the most basic of civil rights.
5. Please strike out whichever option does not apply to you.
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Meanings and Examples of STRIKE
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strike
v. make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
n. a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive.
2 Let the English mill workers starve because they can't get our cotton but never, never strike a blow for slavery.
3 His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther to spring and strike.
4 Scarlett rose from his shoulder, furious as a rattler ready to strike.
5 She heard him fumble in the dark, strike a match and the room sprang into light.
6 Lily smiled also: his words were too acute not to strike her sense of humour.
7 Lily's smile again flowed into a slight laugh: her friend's importunity was beginning to strike her as irrelevant.
8 If, at a moment when her whole life seemed to be breaking up, she could cheerfully commit its reconstruction to the Gormers, there was no reason why such accidents should ever strike her as irreparable.
9 On her way home: "Now that I've made a precedent, joined the union and gone out on one strike and learned personal solidarity, I won't be so afraid."
10 Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.
11 Tis but to help strike a fin; no wondrous feat for Starbuck.
12 But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike the imagination with unwonted power.
13 But strike a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as themselves to fall a prey.
14 As if to strike a quick terror into them, by this time being the first assailant himself, Moby Dick had turned, and was now coming for the three crews.
15 He was badly advised and went to work on furs during a strike, when the factories were offering big wages.
Example Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1 Despite threats of strike action, the management remain hopeful that an agreement can be reached.
2 The union failed to heed warnings that strike action would lead to the closure of the factory.
3 If negotiations fail we shall have to resort to strike action.
4 These changes strike at the heart of British/American/modern society.
5 Please strike out whichever option does not apply to you.
6 The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike.
7 They were ordered to strike back.
8 The law would strike at the most basic of civil rights.
9 Various other groups of workers went on strike in solidarity with the train drivers.
10 I hate to be blunt, Frankie, but she just didn't strike me as being very ladylike.
11 There are fears of fresh violence if the strike continues.
12 Their ultimate weapon was the threat of an all-out strike.
13 The workers' ultimate weapon was the strike.
14 You can do more than strike while the iron is hot; you can make the iron hot by striking.
15 The low wage had warmed the worker to strike.