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.
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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Meanings and Examples of STRIKING
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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.
2 Through the stillness they heard the church clock striking five.
3 "Oh," cried Scarlett, fresh pain striking her as Gerald's words brought home the terrible inevitability of the truth.
4 On came the blue lines, relentlessly, like a monster serpent, coiling, striking venomously, drawing its injured lengths back, but always striking again.
5 General Sherman was trying the fourth side of the town again, striking again at the railroad at Jonesboro.
6 And the air of supercilious elegance which had clung about him in his striking Zouave uniform was completely gone.
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.
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.
9 She saw Erik Valborg coming, in an ancient highwater suit, tramping sullenly and alone, striking at the rails with a stick.
10 A few minutes more, and he rose again, one arm still striking out, and with the other dragging a lifeless form.
11 The mate was in the very act of striking, when another hiss stayed his uplifted arm.
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.
13 In striking at a boat, he swiftly curves away his flukes from it, and the blow is only inflicted by the recoil.
14 "It was given to me by a Vera Cruz girl; they are very generous," he replied, striking a match and lighting his cigarette.
15 It was a striking circumstance that Jonas, too, had gotten his job by the misfortune of some other person.
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.