Strike in sentence

1202 examples of Strike in a sentence

Please take note of the life of the sound after the actual initial strike, or breath, is being pulled.

CL: Thump of the beat in a known repeat Rhythm and rhyme, they make me complete The climb is sublime when I'm on the mic Spittin' rhymes that hit you like a lightning strike Computer: Search.

[Control Condition Memorized Verses] Emmanuel: Top of the beat with no repeat Rhythm and rhyme make me complete Climb is sublime when I'm on the mic Spittin' rhymes that'll hit you like a lightning strike Computer: Search.

In Washington, the president of the United States is sitting in the Oval Office, assessing whether or not to strike Al Qaeda in Yemen.

I went on a three-day hunger strike.

This might strike you as a strange career move, but it actually has one great advantage: no job competition.

Here the riot officer appears to strike Tomlinson's leg area with a baton.

Now this idea, that what we are, the way to understand ourselves, is as not of some permanent being, which has experiences, but is kind of a collection of experiences, might strike you as kind of weird.

And this is good because it means we should be able to strike a balance, to come up with plans and rules to protect ourselves from unrealistic optimism, but at the same time remain hopeful.

Strike one is when you hit puberty.

Strike two is if you get pregnant.

Strike three is menopause.

Strike moment.

Over the last century, we've become 96 percent less likely to be killed in a car crash, 88 percent less likely to be mowed down on the sidewalk, 99 percent less likely to die in a plane crash, 95 percent less likely to be killed on the job, 89 percent less likely to be killed by an act of God, such as a drought, flood, wildfire, storm, volcano, landslide, earthquake or meteor strike, presumably not because God has become less angry with us but because of improvements in the resilience of our infrastructure.

And so three months later, just before she returned to the United States, nurses in Accra go on strike.

I would go on a hunger strike before I let them take away Google Book Search from me.

You don't strike first, but you have a publicly announced policy that you will retaliate savagely if you are invaded.

My first connection with the news media was in 1984, the BBC had a one-day strike.

I'm not sure if I had any impact on the one-day strike, but what I do know is that it took them three weeks to get back to me.

I remember how frightening it was to see the chandelier that hung above our dining table swing back and forth during every minor earthquake, and I sometimes couldn't sleep at night, terrified that the Big One might strike while we were sleeping.

So if you've been following the news, you've heard that there's a pack of giant asteroids headed for the United States, all scheduled to strike within the next 50 years.

When I was writing this talk, I found it very difficult to strike an honest balance, because on the one hand, I felt very uncomfortable to come out here and say, "Look I've received all these benefits from a deck stacked in my favor," and it also felt really uncomfortable to follow that up with, "and it doesn't always make me happy."

So when I get despondent about the state of sanitation, even though these are pretty exciting times because we've got the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation reinventing the toilet, which is great, we've got Matt Damon going on bathroom strike, which is great for humanity, very bad for his colon.

So if you don't have money to offer to people, you must strike their imagination with something as nice as you can think of.

You can strike out, which means you don't get to have any sexual activity.

Did it strike you?

At heel strike, under computer control, the system controls stiffness, to attenuate the shock of the limb hitting the ground.

We want to strike a balance where they have the freedom to do anything but not a lot of money showered on them so they could go out and do nothing.

Congress, it may strike you as impossible, but actually did something intelligent in 1994, and passed the Home Ownership and Equity Protection Act that gave the Fed, and only the Federal Reserve, the explicit, statutory authority to ban liar's loans by every lender, whether or not they had federal deposit insurance.

If she still likes him, they'll strike up a conversation.

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