STRIKINGLY in a Sentence

Learn STRIKINGLY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
368 example sentences for STRIKINGLY, such as:
1. Their taste was strikingly alike.
2. They were ordered to strike back.
3. The law would strike at the most basic of civil rights.
4. Please strike out whichever option does not apply to you.
5. There are fears of fresh violence if the strike continues.
Search Quotes from Classic Book
Animal Farm by George Orwell
 Input your word:
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of STRIKINGLY
strikingly
 ad.  in a striking manner
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The resemblance between her and her mother was strikingly great.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
2  Their taste was strikingly alike.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
3  This peculiarity is strikingly evinced in the head, as in some part of this book will be incidentally shown.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
4  She seemed strikingly homely, standing there in the afternoon light.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXI
5  The difference between his present air and what it had been in the Octagon Room was strikingly great.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
6  There was a portrait within of a man strikingly handsome and intelligent-looking, but bearing unmistakable signs upon his features of his African descent.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. The Adventure of The Yellow Face
7  In fact, I would even have put up with looking base if, at the same time, my face could have been thought strikingly intelligent.
Notes from the Underground By Fyodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: I
8  The length of her body was strikingly out of proportion to her short legs.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
9  In this case, however, although the occasion of the entertainment was similar, the company was strikingly dissimilar.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
10  Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
11  Let the English mill workers starve because they can't get our cotton but never, never strike a blow for slavery.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther to spring and strike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Scarlett rose from his shoulder, furious as a rattler ready to strike.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  She heard him fumble in the dark, strike a match and the room sprang into light.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
15  Lily smiled also: his words were too acute not to strike her sense of humour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1  His style of interior decoration was eclectic: bits and pieces of furnishings from widely divergent periods, strikingly juxtaposed to create a unique decor.
2  Dr. King's antiwar heritage and social justice commitments remain strikingly relevant today.
3  In one respect, however, the men really were strikingly similar.
4  The speech was strikingly similar to one given by the American President earlier this year.
5  Despite threats of strike action, the management remain hopeful that an agreement can be reached.
6  The union failed to heed warnings that strike action would lead to the closure of the factory.
7  If negotiations fail we shall have to resort to strike action.
8  These changes strike at the heart of British/American/modern society.
9  Please strike out whichever option does not apply to you.
10  The firm will be forced to make concessions if it wants to avoid a strike.
11  They were ordered to strike back.
12  The law would strike at the most basic of civil rights.
13  Various other groups of workers went on strike in solidarity with the train drivers.
14  I hate to be blunt, Frankie, but she just didn't strike me as being very ladylike.
15  There are fears of fresh violence if the strike continues.