How to Use striker in a Sentence

striker

noun

• The score brought the 29-year-old striker's goal total to 54.
  — Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
• Over the past two years, some strikers have crossed the picket lines.
  — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
• In the first half, the 34-year-old striker took a nasty fall after a hard challenge in the box.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2023
• Four fellow strikers weren’t at work at the time of the rally.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Aug. 2023
• The 22-year-old striker has seven goals in 17 caps for the United States.
  — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 13 Apr. 2023
• My trigger been pulled so much, the striker got wore down.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• Boulaye Dia, a Senegalese striker, slammed in the opening goal.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 3 Dec. 2022
• That’s like going from a … uh … rookie to a … um … striker?
  — Vulture, 6 Jan. 2023
• The union would not confirm plans to have strikers return to work on Monday.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 30 June 2023
• The striker is kept under constant spring tension by the sear.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• That goal was a striker’s finish, the first of what Russo, and England, hopes will be many more.
  — Ella Braidwood, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• But the strikers are in constant motion, holding their signs high.
  — Maria Prudente, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The union said all the strikers returned to their jobs afterward with back pay and benefits.
  — Rio Yamat, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2023
• The union said all the strikers returned to their jobs afterward, with back pay and benefits.
  — Rio Yamat, Fortune, 27 Sep. 2023
• The Chelsea striker was substituted at the start of the second half and taken to a hospital for tests.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• The friction makes sounds by dragging the striker across the surface in varying pressures and patterns.
  — Nancy Jo Adams, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023
• But a header from Elliot Lee tied the game, and two goals from star striker Paul Mullin in the second half saw the team win comfortably.
  — Leila Sackur, NBC News, 22 Apr. 2023
• Thuram was forced off late in the first half and it’s reported that the French striker is set to miss around 20 days, and is in a race against time to be fit for the second leg.
  — Emmet Gates, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• Like all of soccer’s great strikers, Kerr has a full menu of ways to score; commentators like to call it a knack, or an eye for goal.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
• The union said five strikers on the picket line suffered minor injuries when they were hit by a car outside a G.M. plant in Flint, Mich.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, strikers kept morale up with pizza and Newsies, and more restaurants promised free food to union members.
  — Vulture, 22 May 2023
• The locking lugs were moved from the rear of the bolt to the middle, giving it a 60-degree bolt throw, and making space for a short, single-spring striker system.
  — Michael R. Shea, Field & Stream, 20 Mar. 2023
• One player on each team serves as the striker and attempts to fly their drone through a circular goalpost to earn points.
  — Gideon Kimbrell, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
• But keep this in mind: no Wave opponent parted with a striker who’s as savvy as Morgan.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 July 2023
• That movement pushed back, in part, against the unchecked use of A.I., which, the strikers argued, threatens to dehumanize the creative work force.
  — Beatrice Loayza, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2024
• The 24-year-old striker bore the brunt of the collision and stayed down for several minutes before walking off.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Nov. 2022
• Many strikers had similar struggles to find day care for their own children in the district.
  — Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2023
• The strikes are unusual in that the strikers aren’t asking their employers for better pay.
  — Marley Jay, NBC News, 28 Oct. 2023
• British soccer's oldest striker is still banging in goals at age 90.
  — USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2024
• The primary internal safety is designed to catch the striker in the case of a malfunction.
  — Champe Barton and Tom Jackman, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024