strike on/upon

phrasal verb

struck on/upon; struck on/upon also stricken on/upon; striking on/upon

: to find or discover (something) especially suddenly

He struck on an idea for his novel.

They struck upon a salt mine.

Examples of strike on/upon in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Further assaults followed in 2023 and 2024, including a hammer attack on the aforementioned Velázquez and Just Stop Oil’s orange dye strike on Stonehenge, the mysterious 5,000-year-old monument in England. —Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024

Mohammed Qassem Al-Shaer, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, was killed in a strike on the village of Qaraoun in the western Beqaa district on Tuesday, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). —Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 10 Sep. 2024

At the conclusion of a two-day meeting of the union’s wage committee on Thursday, union members voiced unanimous support for a strike on Oct. 1 if a new contract meeting its demands doesn’t materialize. —Lori Ann Larocco, CNBC, 5 Sep. 2024

Mandy Rose, who competed in the combine and impressed, made a surprise run-in punctuated by a knee strike on Shazza McKenzie. —Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024