How To Use Ruck up In A Sentence
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The band struck up a tango.
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I have struck up conversations with numerous people who know the name of my dog but not mine.
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The orchestra struck up a military march.
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She struck up a close friendship with Desiree during the week of rehearsals.
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About five years ago, some bright spark working for Manchester Stagecoach Buses struck upon an idea which would make the company millions in additional fare revenue.
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Sheridan had struck up an acquaintanceship with the actor-murderer Giles, a slightly bizarre eventuality which might have odd consequences.
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One rarely struck up a conversation with Angela unless she spoke first; anyway, it was enough just to be with her.
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They struck up a friendship on their tour of Egypt.
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They struck upon a Caribbean pine that would grow if the roots of its seedling were dipped in a fungus that was missing from the soil.
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The orchestra struck up a lively march.
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Dyson now claims a 50 per cent share of the British vacuum cleaner market - little over 20 years after Mr Dyson struck upon the design.
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The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith.
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They struck up a friendship on their tour of Egypt.
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And then the orchestra struck up the National Anthem.
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She struck up a romantic relationship with a young Italian man living in the apartment below and made friends easily.
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I have struck up conversations with numerous people who know the name of my dog but not mine.
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At first the cymbals merely kept time with the meter of the mantras, but soon the conch-blowers and trumpeters struck up too, and the band was joined by four priestly drummers each holding a tall wooden tabla.
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Right from the day we struck upon the idea, we wanted to take the channels beyond the metros to other cities.
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In fact, she'd struck up the friendliest relationship with Boxer, the old schnauzer always tied up in Tom Sawyer's yard, two houses down.
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A bugle and drum struck up, their rousing sounds sharply misplaced, and we marched across the wreckage of the walls.
ANTI-ICE
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As the actors began putting on their makeup, the band struck up a tune.
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The band struck up the wedding march.
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They struck upon the idea of taking the children on an outing.
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A bugle and drum struck up, their rousing sounds sharply misplaced, and we marched across the wreckage of the walls.
ANTI-ICE
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While waiting for the lav, I struck up a conversation with Miss Navy and Mauve and Mr. Green and Khaki.
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Daylight broke, a stiff breeze struck up and the sky clouded over.
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Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry ...
French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts
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Cloaks were tossed to attendants, each footman received a red cape, the two _picadores_ took position one on either side of the bull pen gate, the band struck up a tune, the gate was opened and a great Utreran bull bounded into the arena, maddened with the pain of a short _banderilla_, with long streaming ribbons, stuck in his neck as he entered, by an attendant perched above the gate.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
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It began when a band struck up the opening hymn and a huge screen unfurled with a little bouncy ball popping across the words so everyone could sing along.
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They struck up an unlikely friendship.
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The curtain descended slowly amidst sympathetic sobs and silence -- the musicians themselves, deeply moved, no doubt, with the sorrows of the scene, mournfully resumed their fiddles, and struck up "ti _ti_ tum _tiddle_ un _ti_ tum
Records of a Girlhood
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He's a talkative guy, and I struck up a conversation with him.
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He seemed to have already struck up a friendship with Jo.
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I trailed her into Penney's and struck up a conversation.
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Dean Tucker struck up a correspondence withTownshend, in defense of the export bounty on corn.
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Wishing to keep her attention away from the man who was leering at her, Edmund struck up a conversation.
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He seemed to have already struck up a friendship with Jo.
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They struck up "Porta Romana bella, Porta Romana" in samba beat.
Dario Fo - Nobel Lecture
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As we walked into the Leas Club a loud, unmusical tune struck up.
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Darling River ninety miles higher up than where we first struck upon it.
Two expeditions into the interior of southern Australia during the years 1828,1829,1830,1831 with observations on the soil, climate and general resources of the Colony of New South Wales, by Charles Sturt
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She struck up a folk melody on the piano.
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Yesterday I had just turned onto the hardtop when I saw a logging truck up ahead of me signal right and pull off to the side of the road.
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Former members of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment Jack, 85, and 87-year-old Donald were garrisoned in Iceland and struck up a friendship that has lasted a lifetime.
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‘Any minute now,’ declared John Bee ex-cathedra, and with that yer man on the joanna struck up ‘Silent Night.’
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It began eight years ago, to be exact, when the company had struck upon the novel idea of ‘direct marketing’.
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I'd been thinking about what domain name to register, when I struck upon the idea of picking a lyric.
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When we find an anomaly, which defies the notion of some regularity, corresponding to our sense-perception of the world around us, we have struck upon the possibility of discovering a universal physical principle, like gravity.
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Right from the day we struck upon the idea, we wanted to take the channels beyond the metros to other cities.
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Something that works is most often a simple and elegant balance of elements struck upon by design or chance.
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As always I struck up a conversation with the barista, commenting it had been three days since I'd had a decent cup of coffee.
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I heard the clash with which they struck upon the air; and I beheld his body give out rays of glittering blue and green as he darted along, and away, away, over the water in eddying circles that seemed to know no end.
Parables From Nature
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The innovative hybrid drive system used a hydraulic accumulator to store braking energy which was then recycled to launch the heavy truck up to 25 mph or so.
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Felix Page's _left_ side had been toward the balustrade at the instant Fluette snatched up the candle-stick; on the balustrade was a deep indentation where the base of the improvised weapon had impinged, after glancing; and the fatal blow had struck upon the victim's _right_ temple.
The Paternoster Ruby
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Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry in favour of a horse and cart
French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts
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Wilkins has inadvertently struck upon a deeper problem than straw men and psychobabble.
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I was forty-seven, Yorgos perhaps seventy, so his deference was both strange and moving to me, and we struck up a conversation.
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One evening this past summer, I struck up a conversation with a fellow parishioner at a neighborhood block party.
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A couple of minutes later, voices struck up an accompaniment to the drumbeat.
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When the applause had died down, a regimental band struck up the national anthem.
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They struck up a conversation, told him that they had followed him at Hazeltine in 1970 and asked if he remembered who caddied for him there.
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At the bandstand in the magnificent Kennedy Gardens, Cobh Fraternity Band struck up concert music contrasting sharply with the more solemn 49 bell carillon of St Colman's Cathedral.
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The directors struck upon the idea 18 months ago after realising the potential behind the fund-raising venture.
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A couple of minutes later, voices struck up an accompaniment to the drumbeat.
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The band struck up as soon as the Queen stepped ashore.
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Then the pipers and drummers struck up once again and everyone sang the Star Spangled Banner.
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I recalled he had struck up an intimate conversation with her in the lobby after breakfast.
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Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry in favour of a horse and cart
French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts
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Nor could Polly's later explanation that the last word was "happy," and not "drunk," reconcile him; for she had been compelled to admit that the old king was a toper, and that he was always in his cups when he struck up the chant.
BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
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She struck up a close friendship with Desiree during the week of rehearsals.
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He was one, I confess, that I felt a mite sorry for, when the fettering was done, and the band had struck up "The Rogues March", and they shuffled off, dragging their irons as they were herded away to the New Jail beyond the Grand Trunk Road.
Fiancée
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The Livingston-based company, which reprocesses alloys for the aeronautics industry, struck upon a novel solution through the Scottish Networks International programme run by the British Council Scotland.
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Dreiser had left the sycamores, the new-mown hay, and the moonlight on the Wabash for the big city, and one evening at a party at his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan he struck up a conversation with his friend and fellow Hoosier Franklin Booth, a well-known illustrator.
Interstate 69
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She has - um - struck up an acquaintance with a young man, who's filming a documentary of the protest.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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The wild singer has struck up a close friendship with the TV presenter in recent weeks and Chris has asked him along to the lavish ceremony to spice up proceedings..
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One evening I struck up a conversation with “her,” which consisted of me listening to her name-drop continuously in an elitist sneer.
Get Laid or Die Trying
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We immediately struck up a lively conversation.
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He struck up a partnership with Cipriani and Angelica, and their repertoire of bloodless mythological scenes adorned with dimpled putti is synonymous with the art, despite the many portraits engraved in stipple.
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I uncased my guitar, hit a chord, and struck up an old and somehow appropriate Gerry Rafferty song - ‘Here I am stuck in the middle with you…’
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Taking on the libidinous cool of their idols but slowing things down a good deal, these guys certainly don't seem to mind extended patches of instrumental repetition, just as long as they've struck upon something cool.
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We immediately struck up a lively conversation.
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They appeared to have struck up a good rapport.
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Melding together ultra-heavy red-meat rawness with gooey primordial growls, the founding members of the band have struck upon a winning combination.
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I recalled he had struck up an intimate conversation with her in the lobby after breakfast.
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The musicians struck up a tune
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The orchestra struck up and the curtain rose.
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The band struck up the wedding march.
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The band struck up `Days of Wine and Roses" with tremolo effect.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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As the actors began putting on their makeup, the band struck up a tune.
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At last, though, thinking that he had better lie down for fear of being very tired next day, he reached out his hand to draw in the casement, but kept it there, for a very familiar sound now struck upon his ear: _Clap, clap, clap, clap_ of wings, and then a thoroughly hearty old English cock-a-doodle-doo! and the boy burst into a merry laugh.
First in the Field A Story of New South Wales
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Dan was not much in the humour for tunes, but he said, "Ay, Joe, give us a one, man-alive," and Joe struck up with twangle and squeak.
Strangers at Lisconnel
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We struck up a conversation while F. finished backcombing and Aqua Netting his current client and out of the blue W. said, ‘You want to see what I gave myself for my 50th birthday?’
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It seems a few lefty types thought they'd struck upon a fine idea: create a blog, then email a bunch of center/right bloggers to attempt to bring the crowds to their site.
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The concierge thrust a rum swizzle at me as the calypso band struck up a bright number.
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Taking on the libidinous cool of their idols but slowing things down a good deal, these guys certainly don't seem to mind extended patches of instrumental repetition, just as long as they've struck upon something cool.
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On my way out of church recently, a fellow churchgoer struck up a conversation with me.
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We struck up a conversation, in the course of which it emerged that he was a sailing man.
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Besides the thrill of great mountain bike enduros, Oldfield has struck up and cemented firm friendships with the elite of the mountain bike world.
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I took a photo of it because it looked so cute and that was when we struck upon our idea.
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The band struck up a waltz.
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Meanwhile, Hart had incautiously struck up a friendship with William C.
STAR
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Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry ...
French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts
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Like most people her age, Deborah struck up relationships just for the fun of it .
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The band struck up as soon as the Queen stepped ashore.
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I saw the foremost swimmers struck upon the head, or pushed away by violent "jabbing" from the oars and handspikes.
Ran Away to Sea
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It struck up a fine relationship with Brio's low, lightly constructed lasagna layered with a classic, carrot-dotted meat ragù and a stripe of green-herbed ricotta.
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She struck up a folk melody on the piano.
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The band struck up the wedding march.
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Onlookers said the screen beauty appeared to have struck up a very close friendship with the short-haired woman.
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I've just loaded my truck up.
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I have struck up conversations with numerous people who know the name of my dog but not mine.
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The sunlight struck upon my face and my eyes lit upon the white and sandy shores of France.
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This plan miscarried, but he corresponded with Sartre and struck up a friendship with Jean Beaufret, the most loyal of French Heideggerians.
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He struck up many lifelong friendships too.
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The sound of the word "Clo" had struck upon his brain and wakened an echo.
A Lady of Quality
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I'd just settled in my place when the trumpets blew and the march struck up for the grand parade.
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Dey say Congress is going to be bruck up in tree weeks -- I'se glad enough o 'dat.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
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The pair struck up a solid partnership, living together under the same roof and talking football over breakfast cereal and late night takeaways.
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A bugle and drum struck up, their rousing sounds sharply misplaced, and we marched across the wreckage of the walls.
ANTI-ICE
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I was still able to get a flavour of the place through my meetings with animals such as Trixie the eight-year-old whippet cross, with whom I struck up an immediate friendship.
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Kitchener, however, struck up an amicable relationship with Botha and most of the other Boer leaders and at his suggestion on April 18th they left to consult their commandos.
