How to Use strike in a Sentence

strike

1 of 2 verb

• The car struck the tree.
• The bullet struck him in the leg.
• I could hear the rain striking the rooftop.
• The cyclist was struck by a car.
• The ship struck an iceberg.
• The killer struck him with a blunt object.
• He fell and his head struck the pavement.
• The tree was struck by lightning.
• She struck the cymbals together.
• She accidentally struck another player in the face.
• The fire grew rapidly, and second and third alarms were struck.
  — Claire Law, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• At age 10, he was struck in the back of the head with a stray bullet that shattered his skull.
  — Liz Szabo, CBS News, 6 Nov. 2023
• Not all of the trends will strike you as obvious, like the spike in mushrooms.
  — David Pogue, CBS News, 19 Nov. 2023
• After the first series of shots, a 26-year-old woman ran toward the door of the home and was shot through the door and struck in the thigh.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2023
• One of them struck Tyrone, who wasn't wearing a helmet, and fled the scene, the report said.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 31 Aug. 2023
• Pyle then joined in and struck the victim, police said.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 30 Dec. 2023
• Pulse allegedly fired six times at the driver, and three of the bullets struck him.
  — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• The victim had cuts in his face and shoulder, he was also struck in his hand.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 16 Feb. 2024
• But by then, McCarthy had struck deals with those hard-liners that hemmed him in.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
• Rodriguez then struck Smith in the head again and, grabbing Smith by his hair, lifted his head and slammed it against the floor, the video shows.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 12 July 2023
• And this past weekend, five Gazans were struck and killed by a package with a parachute that failed to open.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024
• But the massacres, the missile strikes and the fighting of the last week have reverberated around the world.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• The Taurus has a range of more than 300 miles, meaning Ukraine could use it to strike deep into Russia.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• The bullet bounced off the home’s front door and a ping-pong table before striking Frankie in the abdomen, the office said.
  — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
• When Moody fired the guns, the slugs struck the propeller, causing the plane to crash into the waters below.
  — Corey Williams, Detroit Free Press, 18 Aug. 2023
• Your grip should be such that the chisel is held firmly and will not bounce, yet the chisel will slide through your hand once struck.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• Rocha allegedly fired shots, striking Jordin, 20, and two others in the apartment at the time.
  — Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
• Youssef’s words struck a chord, as the Israel-Hamas War is a lightning rod in Hollywood.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
• Long casts will give you the best opportunity to contact a fish and give it enough time to track your bait and strike.
  — Steve Price, Field & Stream, 7 June 2023
• One of the vendors was struck and suffered minor injuries.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 12 Dec. 2023

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strike

2 of 2 noun

• The workers are on strike.
• The allies have launched several strikes.
• Workers threatened to take strike action.
• The first three went for strikes — two fouls and a whiff.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2023
• The strike would have been the first in the U.S. against Anheuser-Busch since 1976.
  — Dee-Ann Durbin, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
• Already this year is one of the busiest for strikes since 2000.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• The Vista crash was at least the eighth fatal train strike this year.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Feb. 2024
• But then as the strike ended, Sony pushed the date back three months, out of summer.
  — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2023
• Late-night shows ceased once the writers strike began in May.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• The health ministry saying at least 50 people were killed in the strike on the al Fakhoura (ph) school.
  — ABC News, 19 Nov. 2023
• But how much of the correction was to some degree forced on you guys by the strikes last year?
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2024
• The writers have been on strike since May, and the actors joined them earlier this month.
  — Adam Beam, Fortune, 27 July 2023
• The strike also killed Khadija Salman, a 40-year-old woman.
  — Diego Ibarra Sánchez, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
• His best throw came on the Colonels’ first touchdown of the season, a 53-yard scoring strike to Rodriguez.
  — Evan Merrill, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2023
• For actors with movies and awards campaigns to push, the strike settlement was a case of good news, bad news.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• The production delays caused by the strikes could have an even greater impact on 2024.
  — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2023
• The podcast was built to fund their employees while the writer’s strike keeps many shows off-air.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 21 Sep. 2023
• Davidson was scheduled to host in May before the strike commenced.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
• The strike happened right after a series of kind passes.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2023
• And so there will be an announcement at some point in the future when the strike has concluded.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2023
• Another white man -- shirtless -- strikes or shoves the Black man.
  — Jeremy Gray | , al, 7 Aug. 2023
• The militant group is vowing to respond to U.S.-led strikes.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 12 Jan. 2024
• The last major airline strike came in 2010, when Spirit pilots struck for six days.
  — Ted Reed, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Union members were notified that night via email that the strike had ended.
  — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• That strike was also the last time, prior to this year, that Hollywood writers and actors walked off the job at the same time.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 1 Sep. 2023
• This also gives us a greater possibility to react to the impact of the U.S. strike.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 13 Sep. 2023
• Then, the faculty went on strike to demand higher wages.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• But amid a year of strikes, tension simmered in industries that weren’t backed by strong unions and found themselves back at square one.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2023
• Every hit is lethal — a single head stomp or arrow strike kills, and the rounds end when there’s only one (or none) left standing.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• Zauner’s performance on The Late Show arrives on its first week back following the end of the writers’ strike.
  — Evan Minsker, Pitchfork, 5 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024