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Sentences starting with strike

Strike a light there, somebody. [5]
Strike them out, Joan, strike them out, and wait only one day--two days at most--then write and say your foot was wounded but is well again--for it surely be well then, or very near it. [5]
Strike out of existence at this moment every person who was breathing on that day, May 27, 1835, and every institution of society, every art and every science would remain intact and complete in the living that would be left. [3]
Strike the average and you will find what is her average--about eleven and a half miles. [7]

Sentences ending with strike

I'm not asking you to be a detective,--I only want you to give me warning if we are to have a strike. [9]
What's the reason you couldn't get us up a paper on the strike? [8]
I said I would, I meant it I'll marry you just as soon as I can clean up this mess of a strike. [9]
He thought it would make a mighty strike. [5]
And they voted to strike. [9]
She knew where to strike. [5]
Another specimen of this bushwhacking, that "shoe strike. [7]
He could raise the veil--a dark and dangerous necromancer, with a flinty heart and a hand that had waited long to strike. [11]
He had hardly swallowed his drink when the clock began to strike. [5]
The Press unanimously supported him, for it was felt the strike had its origin in foreign influence, and as French Canada had no love for the United States there was journalistic opposition to the strike. [11]

Short sentences using strike

Did it strike you thus? [14]
Shall strike for there. [5]
You predicted this strike. [9]
No, let them strike! [9]
How does that strike you? [5]
How does it strike you? [5]
Doesn't that ever strike you? [11]
Then let Him strike me! [9]
They are the strike committee. [9]
I shall strike--and strike again. [5]

Sentences containing strike two or more times

To strike, to strike, to strike, and earn death! [11]
I knew we should find him, and that we should strike him; strike him the promised blow--the one from which the English power in France would not rise up in a thousand years, as Joan had said in her trance. [5]
A fairly straight line, 700 miles long, drawn westward from Sydney, would strike Broken Hill, just as a somewhat shorter one drawn west from Boston would strike Buffalo. [5]
A rich cathedral gloom pervades the pillared aisles; so the stray flecks of sunlight that strike a trunk here and a bough yonder are strongly accented, and when they strike the moss they fairly seem to burn. [5]
But to die fighting--ay, fighting for Egypt, since it must be, and fighting for thee, since it must be; to strike, and strike, and strike, and earn death! [11]

More example sentences with the word strike in them

Now strike with your right hand. [8]
I mean that you must be prepared to tell George, if he recovers, that you have abandoned your attitude toward the workmen, that you are willing to recognize their union, settle the strike, and go even further than in their ignorance they ask. [9]
Did it strike you in that way? [12]
Odd things strike you at every turn. [4]
If nothing goes wrong, we'll strike the ledge in June--and if we do, I'll be home in July, you know. [5]
I know you wouldn't do yourself justice, Mr. Dryfoos, and I want 'em to know how a strike can be managed, if you take it in time. [8]
The United American Workers (who were half foreigners by birth) passed resolutions denouncing Henderson for employing foreign pauper labor, and organized more than one strike while the house was building. [4]
We got to work on the letter again, and of course did not have to strike out the passage about the wound. [5]
I went fishing with her, but not in her perilous boat: I merely followed along on the ice and watched her strike her game with her fatally accurate spear. [5]
We used to wince and cringe under English criticism, and try to strike back in a blind fury. [4]
I suppose the whole force which has gone forward to you is with you by this time; and if so, I think it is the precise time for you to strike a blow. [7]
Those of us who are wound the tightest go the farthest and strike the hardest. [9]
The fact is, where you strike one man in the English settlements that you can understand, you wade through awful swarms that talk something you can't make head nor tail of. [5]
If it's daytime when you strike it, bulge right on, straight west from the upper part of the Florida coast, and in an hour and three quarters you'll hit the mouth of the Mississippi--at the speed that I'm going to send you. [5]
But some day when he is in a corner with orders, and his rivals are competing for the market, and labor is scarce, his men strike on him. [4]
We see just what we were when they were our peers, and can strike the balance between that and whatever we may feel ourselves to be now. [6]
I then read what I had written and handed it to Mr. Lynch, whereupon Mr. Winters said: "That's not satisfactory, and it won't do;" and then addressing himself to Mr. Lynch, he further said: "How does it strike you? [5]
His beady eyes were those of serpents watching for the instant to strike, and his words burst over the head of Orlando's mother like shrapnel. [11]
Most of them were still too good-humoured with drink to be dangerous, but all hoped for trouble at the Orange funeral on principle, and the anticipated strike had elements of "thrill. [11]
The Belloc people were delighted, but they lived in daily fear of a strike in their own yards, for agitators were busy amongst their workmen. [11]
This lady," Orpheus went on--he not only played the flute but took the higher parts for a man's voice and could also strike the lyre--"desired us to go to her later at her own house, where she would speak with us. [10]
I said, if we tried to cut wages down to a fifty-four hour basis we'd have a strike on our hands in every mill in Hampton,--didn't I? [9]
He had a way with him, and he had brains, had Jacques Grassette, and he could manage men, as Michelin the lumber-king himself had found in a great river-row and strike, when bloodshed seemed certain. [11]
When we had watched long enough to see that Jake was getting along all right and working his signs very good, we loafed along again, allowing to strike the schoolhouse about recess time, which was a three-mile tramp. [5]
The disease which was ultimately to strike him down had already made its preliminary attack. [4]
Suddenly the inspirer was transformed into the man of affairs who calmly proposed the organization of a strike committee, three members of which were to be chosen by each nationality. [9]
Why, if Adam was to show himself to every new comer that wants to call and gaze at him and strike him for his autograph, he would never have time to do anything else but just that. [5]
After this it was perfectly quiet, and brought a measure of corn to the man-tamer, without showing the least disposition to strike with the feet or hit from the shoulder. [6]
You see, I was full of the knowledge and experience of seventy-two years; the deepest subject those young folks could strike was only a-b-c to me. [5]
No other topic was discussed but the rich strike, and nobody thought or dreamed about anything else. [5]
One lady who was coming down stairs was astonished to see a bronze Hercules lean forward on its pedestal as if to strike her with its club. [5]
As the clock was about to strike eleven he had before him three thousand eight hundred dollars. [11]
In all our wanderings we seldom managed to strike a piece of road at its time for being shady. [5]
I wish I'd waited a little longer before telling her about the strike, but one day she asked me how it had come out--and she seemed to be getting along so nicely I didn't see any reason for not telling her. [9]
We know what wages are now, here and there and yonder; we strike an average, and say that's the wages of to-day. [5]
It would be very pleasant to strike hands with the Fremonters of Iowa, who have led the van so splendidly, in this grand charge which we hope and believe will end in a most glorious victory. [7]
It all depends upon how you strike Cooke whether you get the case or not. [9]
When I woke up an hour ago and heard the clock strike 4, I said "I seem to have been asleep an immensely long time; I must have gone to bed mighty early; I wonder what time I did go to bed. [5]
Then I stand up again and strike at him--at his ghost!--as I did that day in the woods. [11]
After the poor unsatisfactory towers of Westminster Abbey, the two massive, noble, truly majestic towers of Notre Dame strike the traveller as a crushing contrast. [6]
They strike an unmilitary man as a very efficient body of troops. [4]
Oh, I can understand what it would feel like to strike, to wish to dynamite men like you! [9]
I turned and twisted my question around and about, trying to strike that man's average, but failed. [5]
Then scowling Hate turns deadly pale, --Then Passion's half-coiled adders spring, And, smitten through their leprous mail, Strike right and left in hope to sting. [6]
It ain't any trouble, because it's the first land you'll strike the other side of the Atlantic. [5]
There's all the trouble between the two towns; there's the strike on hand; there's that business of the Orange funeral, and more than all a thousand times, there's--" he paused. [11]
I never was trained to think, and I get stunned by thoughts that strike me as being dug right out of the centre. [11]
These had consented to the strike reluctantly, through fear, or had been carried away by the eloquence and enthusiasm of the leaders, by the expectation that the mill owners would yield at once. [9]
Then he said to the men: "So you have taken a contract to run a tunnel into this hill two hundred and fifty feet to strike this ledge? [5]
I was glad to take her to Quebec, for I guessed she would get ideas, and it didn't strike me that she would be out of place. [11]
A cub had to take everything his boss gave, in the way of vigorous comment and criticism; and we all believed that there was a United States law making it a penitentiary offense to strike or threaten a pilot who was on duty. [5]
The men voted to strike, last night. [9]
My idea was to strike you for the necessary funds, and do the thing on a handsome scale. [8]
But it seemed to strike upon her grandfather, though he had not noticed it before. [12]
Queen Anne seems to strike them all of a sudden, and become epidemic. [4]
But he's something to strike the eye and hold it, for all his Quaker clothes. [9]
It didn't happen to strike the Colonel favorably. [6]
The Whigs moved to strike out the preamble, so that they could vote to send the men and money, without saying anything about how the war commenced; but being in the minority, they were voted down, and the preamble was retained. [7]
Some were trying to strike her, and the officers were not taking as much trouble as they might to keep them from it. [5]
So I determined to strike at once, and accordingly advised my remaining friends to go for him, which they did and elected him on the tenth ballot. [7]
They taught me to strike at no idol raised, Worshipped a space, then left to be dispraised. [11]
Our idea is to strike across lots and reach St. Louis the 20th of April --thence we propose to drift southward, stopping at some town a few hours or a night, every day, and making notes. [5]
Our object was to strike a trail that led from the Au Sable Pond, the other side of the mountain-range, to an inlet on Mud Pond. [4]
He was going to say to the policeman: "Don't strike him! [8]
She was about to move on, when a thought seemed to strike her, and she added, "This Mademoiselle and her father whom you brought hither- where are they? [11]
I should like to know what your gentlemen over there on the East Side think about the strike, anyway. [8]
It was clear to Jowett that, in spite of all, there would be trouble at the Orange funeral, and that the threatened strike would take place at the same time in spite of Ingolby's catastrophe. [11]
Carnac had telegraphed to his father when the strike started, but did not urge him to come back. [11]
He continued, still to himself, "I must change my plan again; I can't seem to strike one that will stand the requirements of this most variegated emergency five minutes on a stretch. [5]
Slowly it came to him that Little Hammer was keeping him alive against the will of the spirits--but why should they strike him instead of the Indian? [11]
When it seemed to him that it must be nearly daylight, he heard the clock strike ten! [5]
It was beautiful to hear that clock tick; and sometimes when one of these peddlers had been along and scoured her up and got her in good shape, she would start in and strike a hundred and fifty before she got tuckered out. [5]
Many were beginning to drop their heads and shut their eyes, in anticipation of the usual petition before a meal; some expected the music to strike up,--others, that an oration would now be delivered by the Colonel. [6]
Moreton, Tom used to call Alexander the Great because he was a fighter from the cradle, beating his elder brother, too considerate to strike back, and likewise--when opportunity offered--his sister; and appropriating their toys. [9]
The first thing to be done now is to avert the blow which the Bishop intends shall strike us by the hand of Cynegius--it has already fallen on the magnificent sanctuary of the Apamaean Zeus. [10]
This man was to be distinguished from opportunists and self-seekers, from fanatics who strike at random. [9]
Up to the time of the meeting, however, the expected strike had not occurred. [11]
But how do those letters strike you? [5]
Some, even in those early days of the strike, were frauds; were hiding their savings; but for the most part investigation revealed an appalling destitution, a resolution to suffer for the worker's cause. [9]
I would bring this to an end when I had counted ten; I would strike home when I said "ten. [11]
They work these things up from twenty-five-cent tintypes; they get six dollars apiece for them, and they can grind out a couple a day when they strike what they call a boost--that is, an inspiration. [5]
It's a big thing, March, this strike is. [8]
It was one thing to turn Eglington out of his lands and home and title; it was another thing to strike this beautiful being, whose smile had won him from the first, whose voice, had he but known, had saved his life. [11]
The Contractors say they will strike the Fresno next week. [5]
And I suppose they think over there on the East Side that it 'd been wise to strike before we got the Elevated. [8]
For every blow they strike now, they shall feel a hundred then. [5]
And the note they strike is presently sustained by a glimpse, on a siding, of an efficient-looking Baldwin, ranged alongside several of the tiny French locomotives of yesterday; sustained, too, by an acquaintance with the young colonel in command of the town. [9]
We strike for them, too, is it not so? [9]
The professors assist them in the saving of their time by being promptly in their little boxed-up pulpits when the hours strike, and as promptly out again when the hour finishes. [5]
Orlando would strike the trail from Askatoon to Tralee at a point where another trail also joined. [11]
Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom's eyes, before, but now it did not strike him so. [5]
No heart--there is the thing; with a good brain and senses all warm with life--to feel, but never to have the arrow strike home. [11]
Direct action is the thing, the general strike, war,--the new creed, the new religion that will bring salvation. [9]
I said that the strike was over, that the millowners had accepted the I.W.W. [9]
The news of the strike spread everywhere in a sort of instantaneous way--spread like a flash to the very ends of the earth. [5]
And what if the strike should last for months! [9]
They seized all the strategic points; they appropriated all the commanding heights; they knew where the sun would best strike the grapevines; they perched themselves wherever there was a royal view. [4]
He had heard the skull of the lurking thief strike against the granite steps of the house. [10]
With regard to the probability of this war, he had much to expect from the activity of his sister in the Netherlands, and though she now advocated peace, in the twelfth hour, which must soon strike, he could rely upon her. [10]
I went to the place you told me you 'moss always slept, but didn't strike you. [13]

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