STRIKING in a Sentence

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368 example sentences for STRIKING, such as:
1. His eyes are his most striking feature.
2. The striking miners will soon return to work.
3. He cut a striking figure in his white dinner jacket.
4. He fell, striking his head on the edge of the table.
5. There is a striking difference between Jane and Mary.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of STRIKING
striking
 a.  having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
 a.  sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Then, striking upward, it threw a lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Through the stillness they heard the church clock striking five.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
3  "Oh," cried Scarlett, fresh pain striking her as Gerald's words brought home the terrible inevitability of the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  On came the blue lines, relentlessly, like a monster serpent, coiling, striking venomously, drawing its injured lengths back, but always striking again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  General Sherman was trying the fourth side of the town again, striking again at the railroad at Jonesboro.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
6  And the air of supercilious elegance which had clung about him in his striking Zouave uniform was completely gone.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  It was in this frame of mind that, striking back from the shore one morning into the windings of an unfamiliar lane, she came suddenly upon the figure of George Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
8  While he spoke she had moved slowly to the middle of the room, and paused near his writing-table, where the lamp, striking upward, cast exaggerated shadows on the pallour of her delicately-hollowed face.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
9  She saw Erik Valborg coming, in an ancient highwater suit, tramping sullenly and alone, striking at the rails with a stick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  A few minutes more, and he rose again, one arm still striking out, and with the other dragging a lifeless form.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
11  The mate was in the very act of striking, when another hiss stayed his uplifted arm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
12  Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
13  In striking at a boat, he swiftly curves away his flukes from it, and the blow is only inflicted by the recoil.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
14  "It was given to me by a Vera Cruz girl; they are very generous," he replied, striking a match and lighting his cigarette.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIV
15  It was a striking circumstance that Jonas, too, had gotten his job by the misfortune of some other person.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
Example Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1  That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
2  One of the most striking and salutary thing in Ameican life is the widespread study of law.
3  You can do more than strike while the iron is hot; you can make the iron hot by striking.
4  There is a striking difference between Jane and Mary.
5  He fell, striking his head on the edge of the table.
6  The most striking feature of those statistics is the high proportion of suicides.
7  His eyes are his most striking feature.
8  The most striking feature of the house was a huge two-storey room running the entire breadth and height of the building.
9  Sullivan expressed sympathy for the striking federal workers.
10  The company was striking out in new directions in the field of drama.
11  He cut a striking figure in his white dinner jacket.
12  What is immediately striking is how resourceful the children are.
13  We observe a striking shift away from a labor theory among all mainline economists.
14  St Peter's Church is a striking example of mission revival architecture.
15  The striking miners will soon return to work.