strike against

noun

chiefly US

: something that makes someone or something less likely to be accepted, approved, successful, etc.

Her poor attendance was a strike against her.

Examples of strike against in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Poems are distillations into presence wherein now exists in blood flowing through veins, in muscles contracting and releasing, in joints flexing and extending, in this inhale, in this foot strike against the pavement, in this sigh. — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

As a viewer, the biggest strike against Holmes is this documentary’s very existence. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2026

Late last month, 96% or 1,388 of the union’s eligible faculty and staff voted to authorize a strike against City Colleges of Chicago, with 91% of members voting. — Kate Perez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Oct. 2026

In 1973, Barbara Kopple and a small team traveled to Harlan County, Kentucky to chronicle the Brookside miners’ strike against the Duke Power Company. — Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 9 Sep. 2026

Rhymes for strike against

• commenced
• condensed
• dispensed
• expensed
• incensed
• unfenced
• fenced
• sensed
• tensed
• recommenced
• recompensed